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Re: Penlight?

In my experience I have found that I do better if I use a very dim
white light at night so that I can see what I need to see.
I find that a red light really destroys the ability to see color
(important when reading a chart) and needs to be a lot brighter
to be able to see anything.

Bottom line, my night vision is affected the same by either a dim white
light or a red light bright enough to see.

michael

 wrote:
> 
> Actually the blu-green does fairly well. A pilot friend of mine has a
> flashlight with it and its beam is much more visible and useful than a red
> beam.  as far as killing your night vision it does limit it a touch, there
> is a very short time after the beam is turned off that full vision returns
> and that depends on the intensity. 

> > Good point.  I was thinking, "Who writes a lot at night", shoulda made
> > me think of pilots as well <G>  I'd settle for red, does this new
> > blu-green light not hurt your night vision?  I'd expect it to NUKE it?!

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