ericjohn
Enlightened
Earlier in the week I found a NiteCore MT20A on eBay for $36.44 and free shipping.
If all goes well it should be arriving at my place in the mail tomorrow.
This is the second NiteCore flashlight I purchase, my first being the MT06.
I like it because it seems to be a much cheaper alternative to the Sure Fire Aviator (something I've coveted since 2009.)
But it runs on 2 AA batteries instead of those pricey Lithium camera batteries.
It has a max output of 360 Lumens on the main white lite, but it also has a secondary red light, for preserving night vision.
I don't think this flashlight is heavily marketed to pilots, but it could possibly be.
...Since about 2014 I have had this fantasy going through my mind where a thirty four year old man and his slightly older lady friend with whom he is seriously in love, are in a Cessna aircraft over the western United States or Canada on a summer's night. The aircraft belongs to pilot couple that is friends with the lady and she is introducing her boyfriend to them on a night flight. At first, they are leery of him, and his quirks until all the instruments and avionics in the plane go haywire because of all the static electricity in the atmosphere and there is a storm on the horizon, which the man finds out about because he is tuning around on his Midland HH50B pocket weather radio to see how many weather stations he can pick up from in the plane while in flight. At first I wanted to have the impress his lady friend and her pilot friends with a simple incandescent 2 AA Mini Maglite that he was edcing at the time, which he probably will still have one of those, but then recently I discovered the said NiteCore flashlight a few weeks ago and that will be the one he uses to light up the cockpit and to locate their portable aircraft band radio in the flight bag so the pilot couple can read their instruments/radio the tower and safely land the plane at the closest airstrip. This was all possible because of the red LED on his MT20A...After they get on the ground in one piece the pilot couple tells the lady to "marry that man!"...
Hopefully someday, I'll write that story soon and post it on my blog when I do.
I have a wild imagination.
There is a forum I get on that is dedicated to writing known as "The Writer's Beat."
I also used to frequent "Legend Fire", until it was discontinued...
Anyway, I could not find any video reviews on You Tube about the MT20A, but I do enjoy my MT06, except that the pocket clip gets bent out of shape really easily.
Does anyone else use one these flashlights?
If all goes well it should be arriving at my place in the mail tomorrow.
This is the second NiteCore flashlight I purchase, my first being the MT06.
I like it because it seems to be a much cheaper alternative to the Sure Fire Aviator (something I've coveted since 2009.)
But it runs on 2 AA batteries instead of those pricey Lithium camera batteries.
It has a max output of 360 Lumens on the main white lite, but it also has a secondary red light, for preserving night vision.
I don't think this flashlight is heavily marketed to pilots, but it could possibly be.
...Since about 2014 I have had this fantasy going through my mind where a thirty four year old man and his slightly older lady friend with whom he is seriously in love, are in a Cessna aircraft over the western United States or Canada on a summer's night. The aircraft belongs to pilot couple that is friends with the lady and she is introducing her boyfriend to them on a night flight. At first, they are leery of him, and his quirks until all the instruments and avionics in the plane go haywire because of all the static electricity in the atmosphere and there is a storm on the horizon, which the man finds out about because he is tuning around on his Midland HH50B pocket weather radio to see how many weather stations he can pick up from in the plane while in flight. At first I wanted to have the impress his lady friend and her pilot friends with a simple incandescent 2 AA Mini Maglite that he was edcing at the time, which he probably will still have one of those, but then recently I discovered the said NiteCore flashlight a few weeks ago and that will be the one he uses to light up the cockpit and to locate their portable aircraft band radio in the flight bag so the pilot couple can read their instruments/radio the tower and safely land the plane at the closest airstrip. This was all possible because of the red LED on his MT20A...After they get on the ground in one piece the pilot couple tells the lady to "marry that man!"...
Hopefully someday, I'll write that story soon and post it on my blog when I do.
I have a wild imagination.
There is a forum I get on that is dedicated to writing known as "The Writer's Beat."
I also used to frequent "Legend Fire", until it was discontinued...
Anyway, I could not find any video reviews on You Tube about the MT20A, but I do enjoy my MT06, except that the pocket clip gets bent out of shape really easily.
Does anyone else use one these flashlights?
