REFLECTOR:landing lights

[John Dibble]

Rob,

I have the nose light and am thinking about adding a light on the main gear.  I'm concerned about glare from the canard.  I though about putting a light on the nose gear leg, but the occasional shimmy would probably damage the filament.  Do you have much glare with the lights angled down?

John

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> Chuck,
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> The 172 I flew while I was building had this nasty habit of shining the lights up into the air while in the flare so I could see the runway fine in the approach but as soon as I started getting the nose up and feeling for the deck I had nothing but the runway lights in the periphial vision to tell how high I was. Bummer! :-)
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> So I set up my main gears lights with a significant down angle so they would light up the runway while nose high. Then I set the nose light almost level so when I "level" on the ground the main gear lights were very short but the nose light reached way out there.
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> Rob
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