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Birmingham47
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I'm looking for some recommendations and feedback from those who use LED lighting with Night Vision Goggles. This is what I have experienced from flying with NVG's myself and some feedback from Pilots who have come into my store.
- First and foremost never use red.
- Green and blue are preferred but white is used for better color acuity and for preflight.
- Green can be too monochromatic with the NVGs.
- Blue is brighter and works great when you highlight routes on a map. When using a yellow or orange highlighter on a map with a blue LED the highlighted route "jumps" from the map.
- Blue can however make it hard to see water depictions on a map.
- There is a fine line between being NVG compatible and being too bright for the cockpit. (ie-the PALight Survival light's dim setting is perfect but the bright setting make Instructor Pilots angry)
- Preferred lights in order
1. PALight Survival
2. INOVA X1
3. CMG/Gerber task Light (Too bad they stopped the greens and blues)
4. LED Lenser
OK Does anyone else have any favorite lights for aviation or recommendations for NVG ops?
- First and foremost never use red.
- Green and blue are preferred but white is used for better color acuity and for preflight.
- Green can be too monochromatic with the NVGs.
- Blue is brighter and works great when you highlight routes on a map. When using a yellow or orange highlighter on a map with a blue LED the highlighted route "jumps" from the map.
- Blue can however make it hard to see water depictions on a map.
- There is a fine line between being NVG compatible and being too bright for the cockpit. (ie-the PALight Survival light's dim setting is perfect but the bright setting make Instructor Pilots angry)
- Preferred lights in order
1. PALight Survival
2. INOVA X1
3. CMG/Gerber task Light (Too bad they stopped the greens and blues)
4. LED Lenser
OK Does anyone else have any favorite lights for aviation or recommendations for NVG ops?