First TW night landing
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First TW night landing
So I left Fergus ON 20 minutes before sunset arriving at home base of Midland ON 30 minutes after sunset.
- Ryan Smith
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Re: First TW night landing
I love it!
I do a fair bit of night flying in my 170. It’s one of my favorite times to fly.
I do a fair bit of night flying in my 170. It’s one of my favorite times to fly.
Re: First TW night landing
Agreed!Ryan Smith wrote:I love it!
I do a fair bit of night flying in my 170. It’s one of my favorite times to fly.
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
- Hawkeyenfo
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Re: First TW night landing
Night flying is a LOT of fun
Fly Navy !!!!
1941 Boeing PT-13D Stearman
1952 Cessna 170B
1960 Piper Aztec (PA23-250)
1941 Boeing PT-13D Stearman
1952 Cessna 170B
1960 Piper Aztec (PA23-250)
- bgiesbrecht
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Re: First TW night landing
Same here! I replaced the post light with a red LED and it gets the job done very well, even better than the LED instrument post lights I have controlled by rheostat, which are actually TOO bright, and on the lower rheostat settings, start to flicker.
Former owner of:
1953 170B
N1977C
s/n 26122
1953 170B
N1977C
s/n 26122
Re: First TW night landing
I agree…incandescent instrument lights work best when used with a rheostat and on low-power. (and that arrangement is also a low electrical-demand so there’s little or no reason to use L.E.D.s in that service….however I do use LED “GE87” replacements for the overhead instrument lamps and they do fine with the rheostat.)bgiesbrecht wrote:Same here! I replaced the post light with a red LED and it gets the job done very well, even better than the LED instrument post lights I have controlled by rheostat, which are actually TOO bright, and on the lower rheostat settings, start to flicker.
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
- mmcmillan2
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