deanwil wrote

And don't forget the old joke... if landing at night with an engine
failure, wait until you get close to the ground before turning on your
landing light. If you don't like what you see, turn it back off...

Yep! An oldie but a goodie!

I'm a big fan of LED's. I have a MagLight 3D cell 3 watt, and a MiniMag 2AA
3 watt, and various other hat bill lights, strap on forehead lights, glasses
lights, ....

I guess I have to confess that I'm a flashlight addict! g

One thing that I have really noticed, is that the color and intensity of
(especially the 3 watt) LED's make it easy to see details of items at
distances that would be impossible with other flashlights, and that includes
the krypton (sp?) bulbs.

I would imagine that holds true with your lights, also.

At what distance are you able to pick out the numbers on a dark night, and
how does that compare to a quartz-halogen landing light of a average
wattage, like say on a C-172? Is it a noticeable difference?
--
Jim in NC