This explains all of those boaters I supposed to be idiots while navigating channels and the Intracoastal.
When I first started reading your post, I thought you were talking about us. 10 years ago, I helped move a friend's sailboat from Clear Lake to Corpus Christi. We checked the lights the night before we did the overnight offshore leg from Freeport to Corpus and they worked. Next evening, offshore the bow light did not work. Two of us clipped onto the jack lines and went to the bow to investigate. Light bulb was good but had to disassemble the light to clean corrosion. Light was out over the water and we were very careful not to drop anything. A month later someone at the dock told the owner that his red and green light were wrong. We put it back together wrong!
Agreed - With the help of my Delta pilot friend, I notified Delta's director of maintenance operations.
Yeah, I agree. In the risk management side of things, this isn't much to worry about. I don't think I've ever really cared about checking it for placement. Most people flying around at night are going to have more sophisticated threat detection than reliance on wingtip lighting color. The rotating beacon gives me all the info I really need, but even that is barely helpful with ADS-b coupled with Flight Following providing more accurate information.
To save face, you could have thanked the Delta mechanic, but assured him the lights were installed correctly
How could that even happen? It wasn't colored LEDs back then; you'd have to remove the colored lens, climb down the ladder, and carry it 126' to the opposite wingtip, and bring the other one back.
Hubris is easy. Especially when we think ****s figured out. I work with pilots so I’m used to dealing with sanctimonious behavior. I’m told by family/fiends outside of aviation it’s not just pilots. I don’t believe them because I know pilots are special.
Easy. Bob takes the lights off on Monday. Steve replaces the lights on Wednesday.
Anyone who’s never been taught to check light colors are correct might want to change instructor as well.
I’ve forgotten what I had started and engaged in at least 3 other tasks in that time/distance. I’m not going judgy on this one!
Nothing works quite like percussive maintenance! haha Glad you made it home! I was stationed at Port Aransas in 2011-2014 and was on a Corpus Christi-based patrol boat from '09-'11 so we probably passed each other once or twice.
You might want to see if he has his A&P. Sounds like you need to replace your current one.
He said they were new LEDs lights he had installed. He didn't say what model of lights, but many (most?) LED nav lights ARE actually colored, not the lenses, which are clear.
More edumacasion needed?
I don't know if it was from you or somebody else, but I saw that on PoA a while back and now I'll never forget it. I don't drink and never have, but the pneumonic works!
i have yet to see any red or green leds at my base or any of the Delta stations I've gone to.
GA parts
post a photo of lets say a 737 with these colored ledsMore edumacasion needed?
Yes, so what's your point? The OP's airplane is a Diamond DA-40, a single piston engine GA airplane.
It seems once again you missed the context of the OPs post. It was not a Delta aircraft but a Delta mechanic that noted a GA aircraft in flight with reversed positions lights.
Funny, my brain teaser for nav lights is similar; back in the ‘80s my dad was whipping up an evening cocktail that was sorta crazy bright green. He said it was called a ”Starboard Light”... so yep, that’s how I remember!
The one with an 'R' in the part number is red and the one with 'G' in the part number is green?But since you brought it up, which General Aviation position LED light assembly below is the RED one and which is the GREEN one?
I'm guessing the part #'s have "L" and "R" rather than red and green - which could be how it got reversed if the installer thought R was for Red vs Right.The one with an 'R' in the part number is red and the one with 'G' in the part number is green?
