[BC] to light or not to light

[Kevin Tekel]

John Buffaloe wrote:
> I had a situation in San Diego several years ago where I was contacted
> by the police department's helicopter division and asked if I would put
> strobes on the 442' KSON tower.  They were always in the area (high
> crime) and down low, worried about not finding the red lights.  I took a
> night time ride with them and approaching the tower from the north I
> could pick it out, but when I looked away and looked back the red lights
> had disappeared into the tail lights of cars traveling south on I-5.

A related question: are tower lights required to be red or white?  In this
situation the confusion could be avoided just by changing the beacons to a
different color (amber, for example), but I've never seen tower lights
that are not either red or white-ish beacons or white strobes.  (I say
"-ish" because some of the LED or constant-strobe beacons give off a
distinctly purple-ish hue of white, as typical of LED flashlights or
high-intensity automotive headlamps.)


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