I received one of two AveoMaxx taxi landing lights from Aircraft Spruce today. These lights are very compact and very bright, but all LEDs for low power consumption, heat, etc. They come in a nice anodized aluminum enclosure that will be mounted in my wing tips. Since they will be mounted a lot farther forward than the typical wingtip landing lights, I’m hoping the longitudinal face of the wing tip cutout won’t shade the area in front of the plane from receiving light. The holes on the top will be used to mount the nav/strobe lights. There are actually two separate lights in the enclosure. The center light is the landing light and is comprised of a single massive (nearly 1 square cm) LED that is focused in a fairly tight spot. Surrounding that is a ring of small LEDs that form the taxi light. These have a much greater dispersion to more evenly light up the ramp. I came out at night and tried these, and the light output is very impressive. Since I’m installing two, I’m hoping that will be plenty of light for night ops.
