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Old August 25th 06, 05:20 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Macklin
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Default PA-28-140 Cherokee advice

Careful the 750,000 candlepower light doesn't over-load the
cigarette lighter, they are not a high amperage circuit.


"Grumman-581" wrote
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| On 24 Aug 2006 20:27:50 -0700, "Jay Honeck"

| wrote:
| The solution is wing landing lights, which I've added to
our Cherokee.
| Put a couple of Q4509s out there and the taxiways look
like broad
| daylight -- and you look like a DC-9 on final
approach...
|
| My solution for taxiing around those dark airports at
night is a
| 750,000 candlepower handheld 12VDC light that I can plug
into the
| lighter port... I just slide back my canopy during the
rollout after
| landing and stick my hand with the light outside so that
it won't
| reflect off my windshield...