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If you can't see the risk involved in fully blacking out your orientation lights during a night flight and how that will be perceived in an investigation if there's an incident, I don't know what to tell you. You're on your own. Just remember the the guy from last year whose drone got away from him and it came down in a loaded stadium. He didn't mean to do that and he was lucky to get community service and not more. You know what you're doing. Good luck to you.There are no requirements that an RC be equipped with navigation lights. Hearing a quad from a few hundred feet away when you are outside in relative quiet isn't exactly the same as being able to clearly spot it from 5+ miles or more indoors or out regardless of ambient noise. Should I find a situation where I choose to douse the lights for clandestine flight I wouldn't be flying any higher, nor in any area, where I wouldn't fly in broad daylight. As a white Phantom & its lights are pretty much invisible in bright sunlight against a bright sky beyond a few hundred meters could you point out exactly how this is an "unsafe" practice.