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Tim Olson

Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 2881

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:01 am Post subject: Good Test of cockpit lighting/Defrost Fans with Night IFR De

For those who've been following the defrost fan thread, I've got

a good pirep of how my 60mm fans worked in actual necessary conditions.

Last night I had a great opportunity to test out my fans, and my

new cockpit lighting, with a late-night full IFR departure with

1/4mile vis in drizzle and fog and haze.  I just recently reworked

my cockpit lighting with stuff I got from Stein, and it couldn't have

been better timing.  Everything worked perfectly and made a big

difference in how easy everything was.



Also, the departure was very near a big wind-turbine farm, and with

the synthetic vision on the EFIS this made for a very interesting

but safe departure.  I wish I had pictures to show on this one.



I did a combined write-up showing my lighting installation, along

with a good trip write-up that you may find enjoyable if you're

into those types of things.  It was a great way to kick off the

fun IFR spring season here in Wisconsin.



Here's a link to both the story and the lighting install photos:

http://www.myrv10.com/N104CD/upgrades/20070321/



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Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying

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Jim Berry

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 237
Location: Denver

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: Re: Good Test of cockpit lighting/Defrost Fans with Night IF

Tim



Great info on your cockpit lighting and good timing as I am making those decisions now for my panel. I recently posed the question of red versus blue lighting to a friend who is an ophthalmologist, long time pilot with 6 planes ( C421, C185 on floats, C150, Pitts, Fuqua jet, Eclipse vlj on order. Must be tough staying current in all his toys.) Without getting into a discussion of photoreceptors and how the eye works, his response is "if you are primarily interested in seeing outside the cockpit go with red lights. If you are more concerned about reading maps, charts, etc in the cockpit go with blue lighting." He uses only blue.



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KiloPapa

Joined: 24 May 2006
Posts: 142
Location: Pearblossom, CA

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: Good Test of cockpit lighting/Defrost Fans with Night IFR De

Here is an article on Flight Deck Lighting with some background on who uses 

what.



http://208.37.5.10/hf/hf_sept-oct03.pdf



Kevin

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 Tim



 Great info on your cockpit lighting and good timing as I am making those 

 decisions now for my panel. I recently posed the question of red versus 

 blue lighting to a friend who is an ophthalmologist, long time pilot with 

 6 planes ( C421, C185 on floats, C150, Pitts, Fuqua jet, Eclipse vlj on 

 order. Must be tough staying current in all his toys.) Without getting 

 into a discussion of photoreceptors and how the eye works, his response is 

 "if you are primarily interested in seeing outside the cockpit go with red 

 lights. If you are more concerned about reading maps, charts, etc in the 

 cockpit go with blue lighting." He uses only blue.



 Jim Berry

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