For owners who worry about mid-air collisions, it’s no comfort to be told that the statistical risk of a mid-air is low. It’s barely out of the noise level as a cause of accidents. Nonetheless, many who worry about mid-airs forget one simple thing that might improve the odds of being seen and avoided: turning on landing and taxi lights.

PreciseFlight’s Pulselite has two pulse rate settings. Bulbs run cooler when pulsed.

From certain angles and in the right lighting conditions, illuminated landing lights dramatically improve conspicuity. It’s widely accepted that pulsing lights of some kind—either landing lights or strobes—improve the chances of being seen, especially in low light or low contrast conditions. And the more lights you can pulse, the better. …