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Old 2nd Jun 2005, 04:27
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John Eacott
 
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Further to my comment a couple of days ago about flashing car headlamps at birds to get their attention: a very useful addition to landing lamps is the Pulselite system, which flashes the landing lamps on and off to make the aircraft more apparent. A number of manufacturers have STC'd units, a simple Google will give them.

They are required on contracted fire fighting helicopters here, but I first used them about 15 years ago on a 109. If you have more than one lamp, and they are close together, set them to pulse together rather than alternately. If they are far apart, alternate flashing is best
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