Tell the truth, I don't care a bit if someone is nose to nose with me, with their taxi light on. While I turn mine off in case it bothers others, it really doesn't bother me, and no, it doesn't blind me. If they forget, or feel that it's safer while they take the runway, (a lot of old guys out there and it helps them see....fine). If we are taxiing nose to nose and they tell me to stop and the other guy to go, it's a confirmation that the other guy has the taxi clearance, nothing like being nose to nose with someone way down the taxiway, moving and nobody has their taxi light on to see.

Some people just flash their taxi light on briefly as they take the runway, and I'm good with that too. There's no doubt who is taking the runway. In the daytime, I barely even notice the taxi light. I'm not sure why it is such a big deal. Reading this, it sounds like the taxi lights are overwhelmingly blinding to some.

 

It's your duty to teach other pilots a good safety lesson, even if you have to commit an unsafe act to do it. When somebody taxis at an unsafe speed in order to cut you off at an intersection, speed up as necessary to beat them. Then they won't do it any more.

 

That's a very reasonable approach.

Also the next time you clowns "retaliate", consider who might be riding in the other guy's jumpseat. Would be funny to hear someone explaining to a Fed that they blasted a moving aircraft with all their lights because their feelings were hurt.

 

Careful now... There are people out there dumb enough to take this seriously!

 

Aren't there more important issues at hand? I mean.... deciding on the feather, leather or gills for lunch. Oh wait... what ya mean they didnt cater the 1/2 & 1/2 for the coffee. Heck, this is a repeat of a thread from some time back. I thought this thread would have been circling the drain some 80 posts back.

 

As the thread starter I'm amazed this thread is still going but alas I flew out of ATL again this week and once again every 757 turned on their taxi lights. I took the advice of those who admonished me for flashing my taxi light last week and I simply said "taxi lights" on the radio. One 757 didn't turn off their taxi lights but they did turn off their wing lights. Fly Safely!