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Fareastdriver
 
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how the lights are operated in and out and in which direktion the main rotor turns viewed
Switches in the overhead consol. Rotor Clockwise from above; tali rotor inwards at the bottom.

interior lightning, signal lights, colors of the lights,
Instrument and interior white. Standard warning panel multiple white, amber or red lights.

landing lights
Puma: single LL retractable the nose and some with another retractable under the boom. Super Puma: Retractable under the nose and a floodlight in each sponson.

frequenzy of the strobes and anti colision light.
One anti-coll on the doghouse (MRG canopy) and one on top of the pylon. Some Super Pumas had strobes on the sides of the sponsons. The original 330C (RAF) had a flat blue night formation light on the doghouse instead of an anti-icoll with a further two on top of the sponsons.
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