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What is the process for doing this?
I fly a TB20GT. Towards the end of production in 2003, Socata were selling them with forward-facing wingtip lights like this.
These wingtip lights were obviously on the Type Certificate...
What is the process for installing LED lamps in these? One could easily arrange for the current draw to be no higher, and they would be bright enough to work as taxi lights (something which is rubbish on the TB20 due to the taxi+landing light cluster being only on the LH wing; you can't turn right onto a taxiway at night).
But none of the lamps on the market are AFAIK PMAd or TSOd.
What is the process for fitting such parts?
AIUI, without the co-operation of the manufacturer (a situation which is more or less assured) it is a case of getting a DER to generate the approved data - for either a Minor or Major alteration. But DERs I've come across don't like work below $10,000 per job
I fly a TB20GT. Towards the end of production in 2003, Socata were selling them with forward-facing wingtip lights like this.
These wingtip lights were obviously on the Type Certificate...
What is the process for installing LED lamps in these? One could easily arrange for the current draw to be no higher, and they would be bright enough to work as taxi lights (something which is rubbish on the TB20 due to the taxi+landing light cluster being only on the LH wing; you can't turn right onto a taxiway at night).
But none of the lamps on the market are AFAIK PMAd or TSOd.
What is the process for fitting such parts?
AIUI, without the co-operation of the manufacturer (a situation which is more or less assured) it is a case of getting a DER to generate the approved data - for either a Minor or Major alteration. But DERs I've come across don't like work below $10,000 per job