All well and good. In fact I liked the practice landings without landing lights better than with LL. I generally 'greased' them - something about the video-game Zen of just relying on the perspective of the runway lights and small control inputs as you transition from the 'looking down' perspective to the 'looking out' perspective with the runway lights forming a 'vanishing point' illusion.
That said, if you've lost power, you've probably lost comms. and if you've lost comms, how do you activate the runway lights??? (I'm talking most airports with pilot-controlled lighting.)
No landing lights? Not a problem! No runway lights? Big problem!
Moral: Always carry a handheld radio, with known good batteries in it!
Always have a handheld. I live on an airpark with click mic. to accuate. Pretty cool.
Many of the guys here carry two handhelds in their homebuilts, and at least one if their craft has a collum
radio.
Gotta love it. Always have redundant systems and still pooh happens.