Evening. Just wondering if anyone has experience with the alphabeam led landing light vs a HID landing light. I have a whelen taxi light but haven't tried it yet. I often do night flying and flying close to dusk in the evenings, so I will go with whatever will last longer, I'd prefer to keep them on all the time for visibility by other planes.

LED will last longer and seems brighter or at least much whiter close.
The HID will reach out much further. The bulbs can rattle around and break and I have had ballasts fail. Time between failure seems to be a pretty long time still even on commercial airplanes.


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I've got whelen's all around on mine. This is the third plane I've put them on and never had to replace one. I dig'em!

Jim

I put the Alphabeams in for both taxi and landing bulbs. They are very bright, and being LED should outlast the plane. I read some other user reports online that steered me towards the AB's, I didn't do a personal comparison to other options. I didn't want to deal with HID and having to wire all of that in, these are owner-installable with a logbook note like any other bulb as they're PMA'd.

Thanks, I ordered the alphabeam. My plane is down for the count for the next week or two anyway...the battery box cracked and corroded out the brackets etc so took off the backup instrument air pump and put a firewall battery on...now to clean it up back there.