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What do you use for extra and backup lighting in the cockpit for IFR
flights at night? Some airplanes have pretty decent lighting built in. Others can have decent cockpit lighting and poor panel lighting. Others have shadows in poor locations, or areas of the panel/cockpit you'd really like to have illuminated, but aren't. Myself, I keep a LED flashlight around my neck, and other flashlights nearby and handy. I keep on trying other items and discarding them. Perhaps .. I've just never found the right item. Things I've been thinking about ... A yoke/yoke-board mounted light, such as a flex-lite or some LED bar might work well for lighting the panel either in normal flight or when the lights go out. Some velcro on adhesive strips, stick it to the cockpit ceiling, and put something like a pelican VersaBrite II up there to provide some area illumination. Some better lighting for a yoke/knee board would be nice, maybe a flexlite, or same flood light on velcro mentioned earlier. Of course, some sort of backlit timer/counter/stopwatch would really be great, but I haven't found a good one in many years of looking. That's some of the considerations I have, was wondering what other people use. Thanks Bolo -- Josef T. Burger -- | Josef Burger U of WI-Madison Computer Sciences | "No matter where you go, | "Bolo" uwvax!bolo | There you are" | http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/ | -- Buckaroo Banzai |
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