People who have been following my landing light adventures have been
expecting a comparison. As you recall we last left our adventurer with
hid's on the wingtips and quartz to install on the nose strut.

Well I put the Q4509's on the nose and I finally got around to night flying.

The Q4509 is certainly brighter than the normal 4509 incandescent and
worth the modest increase in cost.

The hid's are waaaaay brighter than the Q4509's. This is a bit of a
surprise, but shouldn't be really, because of a report on a website
claiming the Quartz was actually brighter.???

Well having flown them, the hid's, which still need some aiming, are, as
Jay suggested, orders of magnitude brighter. Under various taxi
conditions the hids appeared to be alot brighter, to super brighter.
This was a dark night, at a dark airport.

Wife thinks I should wait a year before getting some for the nose strutt.

Anybody who is thinking about getting the hid's go ahead, they are
incredible!

John