At 02:42 AM 7/07/05 EDT, you wrote:
>Mike,
>
> I put a strobe on the rear fuselage access hatch in the Jantar when we
>flew upto Mt Isa in 1986. Had a couple of good reports particularly from
>people seeing it in their periferal vision. Was a home made one with just
>the tube through the outside.
>
> Local bush fire brigade have some xenon strobes that run for 24 hours on a
>D cell and are a gas discharge strobe not led.
>
> If buying any watch the light intensity. Led are not a touch on xenon tube
>Can't remember the unit but think it is lux.
I have a one D cell emergency strobe in my kit. Have had it for years. I
figure it will be good near dusk and at night. It isn't spectaculat at all
in bright daylight.I worry about how good LED's are compared to the xenon
tubes.
>
> Geez even the Caribou's have a white belly strobe these days. Suppose it
>stops birdstrikes on the trailing edge.
Anyone who can see the strobe on a Caribou ought to be able to see the
aircraft long before! They aren't that fast either. Bout like a good C182
and fly not much different.(I had a go)
Mike
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