Stuart Buchanan wrote: > I've got a couple of questions for anyone who has flown a c172 at > night: The landing light appears to be located on the left wing. I'm > having trouble determining the angle of the light, and how far it > extends. For the moment, I've pitched it slightly downwards, so the > top edge of the cone of light is approximately horizontal, and yawed > it to the right so that it illuminates more across the front of the > aircraft. I'm not sure either is correct!
The C172's I know (past 1970, I think) are having the two lights mounted into the cowling right below the prop - see: http://www.c172fg.de/d-eeqa-dismount-1-03.jpg The taxi light (I don't remember which one it is) is pitched slightly downwards and illuminates not more than 50 m in front of the aircraft. The landing light shines straight ahead. > Secondly, what cockpit and instrument illumination is available? Some types are having individual instruments back-lit (depends on the particular instrument), but in general there's a red overhead lamp in the ceiling, illuminating the entire panel. Overall it depends on the age of the aircraft and on the preferences of the owner. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
