Recently I found a young company making LED position/strobe light kits but I lost the link and cant seem to find them now.
please reply with any known suppliers .
Thanks
I know you said small company, but consider Whelen. They have been engineering lights for a long time. The products are robust. Their Microburst line of LED lights is not advertised much, but they impressed me. I purchased a set for the wingtips of my 9A at Oshkosh. They went right on in the same spot my strobes had been. Easy wiring and away I flew. The Microburst line comes in experimental only versions, with appropriate reduction in prices over certified.
I appreciate this approach, as it addresses the RV builder group well as well as others.
I purchased LEDS off an organisation in Oz
Flyleds.com
Paul is a good guy and always willing to help.
Regards,
Andrew,
Per Whelen's documentation, the microburst line doesn't meet the requirements for night operation.
Only because they don't meet the definition of an "approved" lighting system. Meaning, they are not PMA. Same with the FlyLED products.
Aren't there lots of experimental homebuilts flying with homemade nav/position lights and strobe lights? I think Whelen is just trying to prevent any liability issues with someone trying to install them on a certified aircraft.
FWIW, I believe that there is no requirement for "approved" lighting. The only requirement is that you have them.
Isn't that what is required? Achieved legal requirements, achievement of being seen and with a product that satisfies at least the minimum technical requirements necessary to conduct flight.
"?91.205 (c) Visual flight rules (night). For VFR flight at night, the following instruments and equipment are required:
(2) Approved position lights."
But technically ?91.205 is referenced in the op lims as a requirement for night operations. And ?91.205 does not differentiate between TC'd and Experimental aircraft.
It does, however describe that part as only applying to "standard category" U.S Civil Registered aircraft.http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFar.nsf/FARSBySectLookup/91.205 EAB aircraft are "experimental" category.
And, this would be a fair defense... If your OpLimits didn't state that you must comply with it.
So, experimental as a group isn't required to comply... But, YOUR experimental is.
Can you please explain this as that is a little ambiguous. Experimental is, but your not?
So Does that mean my logic regarding signed off and approved for NVFR by the Administrator, means that the lights are also Approved as they are under experimental and then OK? From my reading that is how it reads.
If the Administrator does NOT sign the aircraft off then it is not approved. Correct?
This is one of those areas that common sense usually rules. i.e. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
In other words, if you lighting system appears to function IAW the regs, then most likely no one will ever contest it.
But technically ?91.205 is referenced in the op lims as a requirement for night operations. And ?91.205 does not differentiate between TC'd and Experimental aircraft.
Part 91.205 does not normally apply to Experimental aircraft, however the operating limitations state that for night and/or IFR operations the aircraft must meet 91.205. Daytime VFR, No!
Similarly Part 43 doesn't apply to Experimental aircraft, but your operating limitations states that the required condition inspection must be done IAW part 43, Appendix D.