Howdy, Netters; I'm getting ready to mount new MicroSun LED taxi/recognition lights on my KR and am looking to discuss aiming of these. Prior to this, 335KC had a pair of Walmart automotive halogen flood/spotlights mounted to the belly board to act as landing and taxi lights but I'm replacing them with the AeroLEDs. Here's the scenario: assuming a normal glideslope attitude, the aiming of the lights isn't all that important and really doesn't come into play until the belly board is deployed, which is when getting stabilized on final. At that point, the goal is to make the plane visible to the tower and to other traffic, and the lights have either a pulsing mode or a wig-wag mode to enable that, but AeroLED says that if if a pair is mounted less than a couple of feet apart as will be on my plane, wig-wag isn't really noticeable and pulsing both together is preferred.
Okay, so coming down final, the lights are pulsing but once on rollout and with the tail down as the plane decelerates, I want at least one of the lights to provide taxi guidance for me to make my way to the runway exits and then along the taxiway to parking. 35KC is a taildragger, so all of the ground ops are with the nose pointing up and my assumption had always been that the belly board is pulled up after the plane is safely on the ground and headed for the runway exit, but I guess it could remain extended for ground operations. Does anyone else out there have their landing/taxi/recognition lights mounted to the belly board so the lights extend and retract with the board? Anybody operate their KRs much at night and have any PIREPs on light operation? I'm trying to nail down the angle at which to mount the lights and whether to mount them at different angles on the belly board. At this point, moving them elsewhere on the airplane is not very palatable to me. Thanks, folks. Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR KR 1-1/2 N335KC, in restoration
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