Navigation Lights

Fun Fun Fun and More fun lol!

This was another project that looked very simple when we first began it but it got tedious before it was over with lol. The side Nav lights are pretty simple after you decide where you want them, where they won't interfere with your vision and reflect in the windshield. Once you decide on that all you do is mount them and your done.

The tail light is a lot more challenging to install if you do it correctly.

It has a V shaped notched flashing around it and the FAA regs say it must have a 180 degree view vertically (up and down) and I think (don't quote me on this) a 140 degree left to right. We've seen these things mounted in every configuration you can imagine even on factory ships so you can get away with about any method of mounting you want to. My thoughts are they have a reason for mounting them like they tell you so rather then learn the hard way we chose to take the easy way out and do it right.

Making that little block of wood was almost as much of a challenge as the inside wood block of the main rotor blades. Mark Wolf came up with a really cool way of making things like this and I suggest anyone making one use his method  rather then using wood like we did.

Landing and Strobe Indicators Lights

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