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Here is a nice video of a Bell Jet Ranger that is outfitted with AeroLEDs red beacons, white anti-collision lights, and the pulsing Sunspot 36: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zikp2scdtuI

As an example here is a photo of a Sunspot 36 installed next to a GE4509 in a Husky A1-C. The LX version of our light has screw terminals on the back and drops right in place of the old bulb and connects to the same #6 ring terminals as the old bulb. With the PMA the GE4509 can be removed...

FYI, I was told this comes from a draft of a new Advisory Circular that the Small Airplane Directorate is working on to cover LED aircraft lighting to help standardize policy across the FAA. I can't wait for it to come out because right now we are having to live with the 31 flavors of the FAA...

Here is the exact quote from an email I received from one of the engineers at the Anchorage ACO as pertains to our STC: 1) LED Landing and Taxi Lights: a) If the LED installation is a simple replacement with no alteration to the existing certified mounting hardware/wiring/switches...

Cessnas, Pipers, Mooneys, etc.

The PMA'd lights come with an 8130-3 form. The 8130-3 is an airworthiness approval tag filled out by the DMIR at the facility where the light is built under PMA. This is what make the part airworthy. If the owner is replacing a bulb with one of our PMA'd lights, and is just installing the light...

Obtaining a PMA as a direct replacement for the GE4509 by identicality proved to be an excercise in futility with the FAA. With the technical differences between LEDs and incandescent bulbs, we spent a lot of time chasing our tail with the ACO by trying to go down that path. I suspect that...

Just to weigh in on this discussion: I am the CTO of AeroLEDs. Our Sunspot 36 LED light have an STC via Northern Aviation in Anchorage. From this STC, we were able to get a PMA. The STC and PMA have recently been updated to include the LX (non pulsing) version in addition to the HX...

Updated Airspace, Airport, Airway, VOR, NDB, Ostacle, and Waypoint database files are now available for AirPlan that are from the current update cycle. I plan on making database updates available from now on since I have found sources for all of the U.S. data now. If I get enough support, I...

That would be an accurate assumption. I thought that since I posted under the Airventure category it was implied :D

I will be giving a forum on LED Lighting for aircraft along with other members of AeroLEDs on July 27 at 2:30 pm at Honda Pavilion 009. If you are interested in learning about what goes into engineering an LED landing light, nav light or strobe, stop by. Dean Wilkinson AeroLEDs LLC

I used to ride a Honda 650 Nighthawk, but last year I bought a 2008 Kawasaki KLR650 Dual Sport and I love it! I ride mostly on road, but it does well on dirt roads as well so it is very versatile and fun...

After years of selling AirPlan online, I have decided to release it as freeware. Our government pulled the plug on the DAFIF dataset a couple of years ago, so I have been having a hard time keeping the database up to date. I am going to work on getting an importer working for the National...

How do you even know there was a pilot in the plane when it took off? There have been cases of pilots hand-propping a plane only to have it fly off without them...

Yes, it is a bunch of bull. We as pilots are trusted to fly our airplanes in a safe manner in accordance with the FARs, but aren't trusted to walk around on the ramp by ourselves? I guarantee you, any pilot can do a lot more damage once airborne than he can while on foot... One of the...

"This is your captain, Al Kohallic, we'll be departing just as soon as I finish my martini"

I'm not afraid of heights, I'm just afraid of edges... Exposure without projection is what freaks me out. If I know I am secure, I don't worry so much. I would be OK with the chains and boards path if I had a harness on and clipped myself to the chains with a couple of safety lines as I went...

While coming in through several bands of snow flurries with about 5 miles visibility, but no clear view of what was off in the distance, I tuned into the BOI ATIS while about 20 miles out and heard a visibility report of 1 mile in snow, which sucked since I was VFR. I decided that since ATIS...

Re: The Blue Angles will be down a jet So, I wonder which one was inverted during the head to head maneuver...

Jay, Daley will be re-elected even after he is dead by all the dead voters in Chicago... Dean