Bright lights...
I've always been fascinated by Air Traffic Controllers. I can't imagine how they do what they do. For some reason, unbeknownst to me, I really love watching the planes land at Oakland International and San Francisco International Airports...but only in the 'bad' weather. For landing at SFO I can watch them for several miles, as they are on their final approach. The planes land into the wind, which in bad weather, is from the south. The jets don't fly anywhere over my house, but I can see them in the darkness for miles. For landing at OAK I can watch them for several miles, as they on their final approach, which is to the east, in bad weather. Again, they don't fly over my house. When a friend and I ride our bikes along the shoreline in near darkness and decent weather, we can watch up to 20 planes do the dance that the ATC want them to do. I used to listen to them on the radio pictured below. That radio has been in our carriage house for years...an