A couple of years ago, fitting gas landing lights (the sort modern cars have) would have been a design exercise requiring a CAA L2 approved company - about £2000 in paperwork before actually doing anything. The lights draw LESS current and give out LESS heat so there should be no issue if properly done.
I've just heard that somebody got them fitted without problems.
Has there been a change in the CAA approach to this, or is this a slip-up? I know the latter is very possible as not every LAME knows the rules and I know of several cases of trivial but technically illegal work.
If the CAA permitted trivial mods like this, especially ones that are routinely done in the USA under a 337, it would leave the FAA IR as the only reason to go N-reg. Now, they couldn't be THAT smart could they be???
