Landing lights
-
- 100+ Posts
- Posts: 748
- Joined: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:24 pm
- Location: Central LA
- Contact:
Landing lights
Has anyone seen/done the dual style landing & taxi lights in place of the single lights on a Maule? A friend of mine is switching to LED on his super cub and they look really sweet. It doesn't look like it would be difficult and should get approval fairly easy?
I can't remember if I fired six shots, or only five.....
M-5 220c, circa 1974
EAA #428061
M-5 220c, circa 1974
EAA #428061
- MizzouMaule
- Posts: 53
- Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2016 7:39 am
- Location: Louisville, Kentucky
- Contact:
I replaced my landing lights with Aero-LEDs. They're very bright and have built-in wig-wag capability so you don't need to add a box for the pulse. Just add a toggle switch. I think they're $400 apiece, but should last a long time. I love em. But I already had a light on each side.
Bill
1998 MX7-180C
1998 MX7-180C
-
- 100+ Posts
- Posts: 748
- Joined: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:24 pm
- Location: Central LA
- Contact:
- DeltaRomeo
- 100+ Posts
- Posts: 410
- Joined: Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:05 am
- Contact:
- n2020u
- Posts: 97
- Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:31 pm
- Contact:
I read your post yesterday and couldn't remember where I saw a maule with four landing lights.. Then I remembered! Check the link;second picture. Now THAT setup is awesome...similar to a Husky!
Is the owner of Zk-MTP on the forum?
http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2016/03/hb ... e.html?m=1
Garrett
Is the owner of Zk-MTP on the forum?
http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2016/03/hb ... e.html?m=1
Garrett
Garrett
- aero101
- 100+ Posts
- Posts: 2145
- Joined: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:18 pm
- Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
- Contact:
You could also do 2 supercub doubles easily... or even just fabricate what you want in lens / cover department, scrounging fixtures from Maule, Cub, Cessna, etc... Nice thing about the cub stuff is that it's same identical LE profile as the Maule... I also believe that a logbook signoff would be all that would be necessary as negligible W&B change and certainly not major alteration if you used legal LED's as current draw would be less the orginal even with 4ea lights!!
Jim
http://www.northstar-aero.com
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
http://www.northstar-aero.com
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- crbnunit
- 100+ Posts
- Posts: 1890
- Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:42 pm
- Location: Alaska
- Contact:
-
- 100+ Posts
- Posts: 748
- Joined: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:24 pm
- Location: Central LA
- Contact:
Yep, I was thinking less draw, even with 4x lights. I'm going to do it. I fly from an unlighted grass strip and do not plan on doing night ops here atall, but in the past I have been in some pretty rough places coming in right at dark and wished for more light.
I can't remember if I fired six shots, or only five.....
M-5 220c, circa 1974
EAA #428061
M-5 220c, circa 1974
EAA #428061
-
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Sat May 19, 2012 1:16 pm
- Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
- Contact:
Landing/taxi light
I put in Aveo lights. They are a combo landing and taxi light. One each wing, wing wag and very bright.
- Flyhound
- 100+ Posts
- Posts: 414
- Joined: Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:04 pm
- Location: Port Townsend, WA
- Contact:
I have an LED in one wing, and an incandescent in the other wing. Both are aimed wrong because neither does a very good job of lighting what I need to see either on approach, or when taxiing. I found out the hard way when headwinds delayed me into making a night landing at an airport that had poor ground lighting. I made it in, but it was a high pucker factor landing. Is there a reliable method of adjusting the lights on the ground without a lot of adjust/fly/readjust trial and error cycles?
Por mares nunca dantes navegados - a line from a Potugese poem about exploring the unknown.
- maules.com
- 100+ Posts
- Posts: 3144
- Joined: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:01 pm
- Contact:
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 34 guests