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  • Commercial or private aircraft, the distance the lights are apart help give you an idea of what size the traffic is. Navigation lights. Green right wing. Red left wing. White tail marker and sometimes on the rear of the wingtips. Red rotating beacon anti-collision light usually top of tail and sometimes also one on the belly. White flashing strobe lights are additional anti-collision lights that sometimes are turned off when flying in clouds because the flashback from the clouds can be as bright as lightning and cause a loss of night vision. Strobes are usually on the wingtips, sometimes on the tail and belly of an aircraft. Landing and taxi lights are usually on a wing leading edge or on a gear strut. They are aimed differently, the landing light illuminates at an angle for the aircrafts attitude while landing and the taxi lights act like headlights when the aircraft is operating on the ground.

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