RMD wingtips for SKymaster?

[gkey]

Well, it's official. Nobody, but nobody, makes wingtips with landing lights built in for 337G's. Looks like I am going to stay with the two lights in the cowl...at least I'll change them to HID's and hook them up to the PulseLite system.

On a side note, this weekend I was on my way back home with my other plane (172N) and had the pulsing HID"s on (alternating between wingtips and nose). This is Class D space and we gotta call 11 miles out inbound - just after I told tower I was 11 miles to the west inbound over HWY 55, they said " we have visual". Now, that's cool!!!

[hharney]

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...ndingLight.php

Jakes
Is this the HID you are talking about? Wow, them dudes are expensive. I have 4 lights on my ship, 2 taxi and 2 landing, that's over $2,000.00 for a set. Are these approved for Skymaster? How do the HID compare to the Xenon? Same thing?

[gkey]

Yep. And yep. As far as I know HID and Xenon are pretty much the same thing - at least, the same result. A piercing blue-white light that can be seen for miles and miles and miles and...

They use a lot less power than ordinary lamps too, and don't get hot (I think that's part of the long life secret of these lights). They also do not have a coil inside.

When I line up for departure, I can pretty much light up as far as 200 yards or more of the runway. Last year the dudes in the tower told me I had to buy them Raybans to put on when they see me coming! In my previous post I said how they had visual of me 11 miles inbound - that was in DAYTIME!!