I have been through this process twice. One certified,
one experimental.

Check your glider's operating limitations. If it is
a certified glider (not experimental), it is probably
placarded against night flying. The only way to change
that is to place it in experimental category. It will
still require an STC (or 337/ field approval, if you
can get one). Whelen lights have been put on everything
from airliners to fighters, yet it requires a totally
new STC for installation on a new make/model. I douby
Whelen is interested in this tiny market segment.

If it is experimental, your ops limits probably state
'Day VFR only, unless equipped according to 91.205'.
They probably also require you to notify FSDO of any
major alterations. Adding lights is a major alteration.

LEDs are very bright, but also very directional. To
meet the angle, color requirements is fairly difficult.
Whelen does make LED wingtip lights, but they are
fairly expensive. You will also need at least two
strobes, and the power supplies to go with them. LEDs
won't currently meet the requirements for strobes.

Unless your motorglider (Stemme, Katana, Ximango) came
factory equipped, or unless someone is paying you to
fly at night, probably more trouble than it's worth.

Bob C.


At 21:00 15 September 2006, Wayne Paul wrote:
Mike,

It is a Schreder HP-14 kit built sailplane designed
in 1966. Dick Schreder
won the US Nationals with serial number 1 in 1967.
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/HP-14/N4736G.htm

Wayne
HP-14 N990 '6F'
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/N990_Borah_Mt.JPG
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder



'Mike Schumann' wrote in message
link.net...
What kind of glider is that?

Mike Schumann

'jb92563' wrote in message
oups.com...
I can think of one way to make a glider more visible
with an intensity
equal to the sun and draws absolutley NO POWER and
requires NO WIRING

Check this out!

http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/HP...LH/N14LH_2.jpg

In truth the power it requires is in the buffing,
but the results are
incredible.

The polish to get this is called Nuvite and costs
a lot but with
outstanding results http://www.perfectpolish.com/