Just curious, why are the Phantom series drones equipped with two red lights on the front, and not a red and green light to show which side is which like on planes and boats?

Yes, two red navigation lights in front and those in the rear are used to signal aircraft's status.

Regards Leif.

The rear lights are green. Two red, two green, just like every other quad ive ever owned. The green lights blink to make them more visible for you and aircraft.

I mean like the navigation lights. See Wikipedia on this.

Wow, trying to be of help, adding a link. The forum changed the link to something I didn't want to link to, plus I can not change my message anymore. Sorry for the inconvenience, but this was the page I was referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_light

BirdsEyeView Posted at 2017-7-13 06:46
Wow, trying to be of help, adding a link. The forum changed the link to something I didn't want to link to, plus I can not change my message anymore. Sorry for the inconvenience, but this was the page I was referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_light

Yes, the lights are called navigation lights out in the civilian world. DJI does not conform to the usual rules with their light.   

Regards Leif .

None of the quads seem to.. while on airplanes and boats it's left/right, on qads it always has been front to back, and on top of it - red in the front... no clue why and how they came out5 with it.. but that's how it seems to be...!

Would be very smart of dji to change to navigation lights. The reason why they are in use is ....the easy identification of a alignment of a object  in distance.sins we have that the collisions are under control
There is no good reason, besides a lack of knowledge,  to do different.

I think it's very smart for DJI to keep the lamps the way they are.  The lamps are for the pilot's perpective, not aircraft traffic.  The current lamp system makes perfect sense.  I think once you fly for a while, you'll understand this.