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A remote pilot operating at night determines that reducing the intensity of the small UA's anti-collision lighting would improve safety at the specific operating location. Under § 107.29, may the pilot do this?

Why: 14 CFR 107.29(a)(2)/(b): the remote pilot in command "may reduce the intensity of, but may not extinguish, the anti-collision lighting if he or she determines that, because of operating conditions, it would be in the interest of safety to do so."

  • Overstates the rule as absolute; § 107.29 explicitly allows the remote pilot discretion to reduce (not eliminate) the lighting's intensity when safety warrants it.
  • Misreads the discretion as permission to extinguish the light entirely; § 107.29 permits only a reduction in intensity, never turning the anti-collision lighting off during night or civil-twilight operations.

UA.II.B.K10Source: 14-cfr-107.txt, § 107.29(a)(2), (b)Reviewed 2026-10-22

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