Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
Believe it or not, some places teach to turn on the radar for bird avoidance.
That was proven in an USAF study to not work.
Illuminating the aircraft does have some effect. Anything which increases the aircraft's visibility to birds is good. Even if bugs are attracted to the light and birds like bugs, if the birds can see the bugs being chased by a 250 knot big metal bird, then they will probably get out of the way.