Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Physiological - Other; Communication Breakdown; Distraction
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown
Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; General Physical Injury / Incapacitation
Human Factors; Aircraft; Environment - Non Weather Related
As previously reported; the strobes on these aircraft are positioned such that they flash brightly into the cockpit; causing pilot vertigo. As such; the pilot is forced to turn off the strobes for the entire flight to avoid vertigo; thereby creating more of a potential collision risk due to the strobes being turned off. Go fly one of these things at night with the strobes on.
An A320 pilot reported the sharklet equipped aircraft strobe lights are positioned such that in flight at night and in clouds they are blinding in the cockpit and cause vertigo. The reporter turned the strobes off.