Wingtip landing lights

Thermos · #1 06-22-2005, 11:05 AM

Hello all,

I'm starting to think about landing/taxi lights and whether to go with the Duckworks-style square leading edge lights, or the CreativAir-style combo of smaller round lights and LED position lights.

I'd really like to hear some comments from anyone who has flown with the CreativAir combo system. Are the landing lights bright enough? Do they "wash out" the LED lights surrounding them?

Thanks in advance,

Dave

RV_7A · #2 06-22-2005, 01:56 PM

You'd be better off with the Duckworks landing lights and these...

RVbySDI · #3 06-22-2005, 02:28 PM

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You'd be better off with the Duckworks landing lights and these...

Ok, those are really cooool. . . But what are they, where do I get them, how much do they cost? Are they green and red serving as the nav lights or is that just my imagination on the color of the light in your photo? If they are your nav lights I have got to get some of those. Please give me some info on where to get them.

RVBYSDI
Steve

RV_7A · #4 06-22-2005, 03:03 PM

They are Nav lights. One Red and one Green. I offer them for $300 a pair, plug and play no building.

-Jeff
512-699-8505

godspeed · #5 06-22-2005, 07:19 PM

I just gota know about that paint trim your using on those lights Jeff ?

Danny..

rv9aviator · #6 06-22-2005, 08:23 PM

You might heck out this website too. This is what I'm going to use for landing lights. I saw several sets of these installed in RV's. They all told me they put out plenty of light and they fit in the wingtip. I have two Duckworth wingtip lights I would sell worth the money if you decide to go that way. They are fine but I just decided I didn't want to cut the leading edge skin to install them. http://www.rmdaircraft.com/

Jim Wright
RV-9A wings 90919 Arkansas

alpinelakespilot2000 · #7 06-22-2005, 09:51 PM

I would also be very interested to know of anyone who has firsthand flying experience using wing tip landing lights. I'm getting close to the stage of needing to decide. When I was at Van's getting my demo ride, I asked Gus about them. The short answer was he thought they were great for the -10 because the wingtips/plexiglass lenses are large, but not very good for the 2-place RV's because the wingtip lens is too small to allow the landing light to aim inward enough to be useful. Plus, the relatively small size of the wingtip made the interference with the strobe and/or position lights more noticeable in ways that it was not with the -10. I have no firsthand experience myself, but please let me know if you have. I'd love to not have to cut up my leading edges, but plan do so within the next week or two unless I hear otherwise from successful users (fliers) of the wingtip versions.

Steve

RV_7A · #8 06-23-2005, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by godspeed

I just gota know about that paint trim your using on those lights Jeff ?

Danny..

-Danny
I painted it with a paint called Alclad II Lacquer. It is a paint designed for painting the back side of glass and looks like a mirror on the opposite side. However the clear tips are made from Lexan which is flimsy, scratches easy and has horrible optics. Sad thing was when painted with the Alclad II, it attacked the plastic and did not look like a mirror. I will soon be offering these tips in Plexi-Glass and they will look much nicer.

jimrobinette · #9 06-23-2005, 06:02 AM

Jeff,

Will there be any of your lighting packages at Osh? Anyone flying with your lights?

The fuse stand is working great! Very glad I bought it from you.

Take care,

Jim

Thermos · #10 06-23-2005, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by alpinelakespilot2000

....he thought they were great for the -10 because the wingtips/plexiglass lenses are large, but not very good for the 2-place RV's because the wingtip lens is too small to allow the landing light to aim inward enough to be useful. Plus, the relatively small size of the wingtip made the interference with the strobe and/or position lights more noticeable in ways that it was not with the -10.

Good points, Steve. We had a set of RMD wingtip lights on our Archer, and with the nose landing light off we had a big dark spot in front of the airplane for the very same reason that Gus mentioned.

One of our local -8 builders has a set of the CreativAir combo landing light/LED nav lights in his wingtips. With the landing lights on, the nav lights seem to be washed out and more difficult to see - and those LED lights are pretty bright. That's on the workbench, though, and I'd like to see how they work in real-world ops.

Gee, I think I'm talking myself into a pair of Duckworks lights...

Dave