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Kelly
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First TW night landing

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So I left Fergus ON 20 minutes before sunset arriving at home base of Midland ON 30 minutes after sunset.
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Ryan Smith
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I love it!

I do a fair bit of night flying in my 170. It’s one of my favorite times to fly.
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GAHorn
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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.
Agreed!
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Night flying is a LOT of fun :)
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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.
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GAHorn
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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.
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.)
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Like 8)
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