Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:25:29 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com ([205.188.144.208] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b2) with ESMTP id 3194162 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:59:20 -0400 Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.3.) id q.24.54b33a6c (4238) for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:59:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <24.54b33a6c.2dc031b3@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:59:15 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] Re: LNC2 white position lights X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1083103155" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 880 -------------------------------1083103155 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/27/2004 4:33:29 PM Central Standard Time, marv@lancaironline.net writes: CFR 14 Part 91.209 requires position lights and strobes to for the aircraft to be operated at night... position lights include a rearward visible white light ... not a strobe. Hmmm. Anti-collision lights (strobes) must be on if they are operable - day or night. Strobes are white lights. Whelen even provides a strobe box which fires a strobe taillight. It is more important to that the required lights are visible over the required angular range. Some people bury the wing strobes (anti-collision) thus making them useless from the rear. If the wing strobes stick out far enough so that one of them is always visible from the required rear angles for the white position light it should be ok. Hmmm... Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk Sky2high@aol.com II-P N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL (KARR) LML, where ideas collide and you decide! -------------------------------1083103155 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In a message dated 4/27/2004 4:33:29 PM Central Standard Time,=20 marv@lancaironline.net writes:
<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size= =3D2>CFR 14=20 Part 91.209 requires position lights and strobes to for the aircraft to be=20 operated at night...
 
position lights include a rearward vis= ible=20 white light ... not a strobe.
Hmmm.  Anti-collision lights (strobes) must be on if they are oper= able=20 - day or night.  Strobes are white lights.  Whelen even provides a= =20 strobe box which fires a strobe taillight. 
 
It is more important to that the required lights are visible over the=20 required angular range.  Some people bury the wing strobes=20 (anti-collision) thus making them useless from the rear.  If the wing=20 strobes stick out far enough so that one of them is always visible from= the=20 required rear angles for the white position light it should be ok.
 
Hmmm...=20
 
Scott Krueger=20 AKA Grayhawk
Sky2high@aol.com
II-P N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL=20 (KARR)

LML, where ideas collide and you=20 decide!
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