Transform your aircraft with simple LED light upgrades

[@flyhigh02205]

Do you have to log that all lighting were replaced on the aircraft logs?

[@gear_down]

Of course

[@lvdhop9282]

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[@BeauInPDX]

That was pretty cool to see, I think a lot of your followers would like to see more stuff like this as some of us are moving towards buying our own planes.

[@jeremyn6872]

I laughed when you started using heat shrink on the unused wires on the tip lights. The stark contrast between you doing things the right way and other “rescue” channels hacking planes together is wild. Great content as always!

[@gear_down]

How do they do on those other channels???

[@theanswriz42]

I like these kinds of DIY videos for certified aircraft. Wish there was more similar content on KZbin.

[@kevingreen7644]

Got 2.8k of WAT sitting in my Aircraft Spruce cart to replace everything on my Warrior! I’m saving the order as my gift to me if my IR Checkride goes well in June! Love the videos man you’re an inspiration

[@gear_down]

Awesome!!!!! Good luck on the ride!!!!

[@jamesclifford5351]

Love the DIY ! Keep ‘‘em coming !

[@SentinelSawka]

Awesome that they keep the same screw template on the new lights. Super super simple.

[@Col-Hogan]

Hell of a difference! The old girl is coming along, looking good.

[@nickocarey3482]

I’m from The Bahamas 🇧🇸 and I truly enjoy watching all of your content. You have my dream of flying inside home and I always look forward for the next adventure. Keep doing your thing it gives hope to people who really need it. Thank you!

[@HJCars]

Congrats in advance on 50k. I recently got into aviation because I now work in the industry since Feburary. Your videos are so inspiring and informative for someone like me who is a massive car guy and is still learning about aviation. I want to go get my private pilots licence now! Looking forward to seeing who wins the headset!

[@RyanKirkpatrick-x5o]

That looks so clean!! Let me know when you’re flying through Missouri! I’m looking for a plane just like that!!! Keep the vids coming!!

[@PTRRanger951]

Looks amazing! Good job. And even on cars you will find lights with “Top” on them. Mostly LEDs because it has to do with drainage for water and moisture. There is usually a small port on the bottom to allow it to drain to keep the circuit boards dry. It’s a lot more important in LEDs than with halogen lights that do not have all the circuitry in them. The port is usually covered by a small nomex breather or just a small pin hole. You can see it on the landing light when you showed the back of the two. That little grayish/green circle on the bottom was the breather and port cover.

[@glenn3379]

gotta say... that looks awesome. I got a feeling that the 210 is going to get a set of Whelens. Keep the DIY videos coming!

[@devinbrooks5612]

Love the Piper. Picked mine 3y ago, did the panel, light nexts

[@antonioportelli1002]

The plane looks very clean with those new lights installed. Awesome job as always. ✈️✈️

[@MajorLazer182]

Love the variance of your channel, that upgrade was NEEDED, amazing new look. Really excited for the citation videos, been missing that thing

[@paulfreeman5756]

You made that look effortless good effort appreciate you sharing your moment with us

[@andrewestermann484]

looks great, nice upgrade

[@ThEvltwn]

Love the DIY aspect, well produced with relevant commentary etc 👌🏽 another facet to the Gear Down Empire 😁💪🏽

[@alfredo4481]

Hello!! I’m just arrived in Orange County from Italy to get my IR and Commercial. Thank you for your advices. Would be great to meet you sometime here in OC. Have a good day!!

[@gear_down]

Good luck with your training Amico 🇮🇹

[@alfredo4481]

@@gear_down Grazie!!!🇮🇹

[@KC-pq2dr]

My tail light research revealed the bottom has a tiny drain hole and is the reason to orient correctly.

[@gear_down]

Good to know

[@bugged120]

New LED's are so much brighter! Well done Tommy!!!! P.S. Don't listen to the haters, I think you're a great mechanic.

[@KC-pq2dr]

I just had drama with my PA28-180 tail light. Previous jacked up ground. I really wanted a WAT LED to match wing tips but the mounting holes in the fiberglass cap were wallowed out and was going to be too much work for me. Maybe another day. I sincerely want me a pair of those crimps 😀

[@gear_down]

Bummer, you’ll get it!

[@josevillanueva5940]

Great to know! I will definitely get those for when I get my Airplane.

[@conradboss]

The ground wires should be routed to the forest tabs on the panel. 😊

[@gear_down]

The grounds are routes to the existing grounds for the lighting backplates.

[@bernardanderson3758]

Gear down your arrow is going to be amazing now so now I’ll be looking into it

[@budowens6478]

I use Whelen LED on my Cessna 172, love’em.

[@OnlyIn876]

21:00 why is it bad to have it strobing in the clouds? Would it affect your vision from the cockpit?

[@MemorexMan308]

Love these vids, Thx for sharing

[@cowboy4o1]

Love the DIY content

[@alphakilo-79]

Congrats on the 50k. Love the content

[@ESPS_90]

Excellent video Tommy it's great that you do this kind of thing explaining everything Thanks 🙏🏻

[@JORDAN_FENECH]

I love these types of video, so informative! Another banger bro! So close to 50k congrats g

[@7romosky836]

I think I heard you on the radio recently 125.4 NorCal. Come by KGOO sometime.

[@ShietFak]

I wish you would emphasize not using power tools to put the screws back in, or at least tightening them using the clutch so they don't strip out. My biggest issue with DIYers is over tightening and stripping screws out. Props on mentioning corroded screws, but there is no mention of how to deal with corroded fasteners.

[@Ptro1]

Gotta love using a screw knocker for entire panels…

[@Albi.k]

Can we get more mini maintenance videos!! , oil, brakes etc

[@flyhigh02205]

That looks great I wish I could have my own aircraft soon

[@davelanglands4156]

Curious... for the cost of a connector why you wouldn't replace the old handshake on the green light with a brand new one so that you have a nice new connector in place instead of an old one that could corrode faster than the new one? Seems odd that you didn't make the change while you could. Great videos. Living vicariously :)!

[@gear_down]

Looked fine after cleaning. An easy swap later if it fails. If it ain’t broke, don’t mess with it. It was also to show the compatibility between old & new connectors. Something you rarely see in the automotive world

[@craigfeil8844]

Nice Mate from Australia! 🎉

[@RockyRiverWoodworks]

Tommy, Love the videos. Do the upgrades from old lights to new LEDs all fall under preventative maintenance? (Able to be done by a pilot/owner - no A&P)?

[@Atrociousnes]

Hey, random, maybe not so random question. Do you have a recommendation for an A&P school in the OC area? Or did you go out of the state for your cert. Much appreciated if you respond if you dont no worries 🤙

[@gear_down]

Orange Coast community college has an AMP program

[@Martin_Brown934]

I’ve been watching and subbed for a while, both the tube and insta. Hopefully a student gets the A30, because Lord knows I’m way out of currency to make use of them.

[@antonioportelli1002]

Awesome video as always Tommy!! ✈️ ✈️

[@leonolasco8284]

We almost hit 50k!! I want those boseee hell yeah

[@_dane.johnson_]

Gear down hoodies so tuff gonna have to get one

[@arrowpilotii8397]

I always like these videos. Couple of thoughts as your and ap I know you didn’t want to add the extra wire so you could have the strobes but i would think with a switch you could turn it off in imc if you needed to. Also I wouldn’t want my ap trying to install as fast as possible but that’s just my two cents. Otherwise like your videos and love arrow’s as that’s what I have

[@gear_down]

You’re missed the whole point. It’s MY plane, and I don’t want to wire a switch. If it was YOUR plane, and YOU PAID ME to do the install, then I’d install it on YOUR plane however YOU want. And I would check harge YOU for it accordingly. But I don’t work on any GA planes that I don’t personally own. As such, I’ll install items the way I want to, on MY plan. Thanks for watching Cheers 🍻

[@arrowpilotii8397]

@@gear_down sorry I hope I didn’t insult you as I love the show. I just really like the quality of the lights and functionality of them as I have them on my arrow as well. I do hear what your saying in imc as I know it can be distracting but I found the biggest issues to be with the tail beacon which there is a fix. Either or love your channel and would love to meet up as I am at kwhp which is close to you.

[@D.M.Bozeman]

Just came back to say that I was one of the first 20 people to watch this one…. Because I’m a fucking gangsta. Lol. Love the content brother.

[@Shandakel]

A&P getting ready to start my 121 job. I could use new A30s as my Lightspeeds aren’t TSO’d 😅

[@johnnyg419]

Looking good bro, let’s see ya up in the sky with her now. 🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@alexrcastillo1977]

Would love to upgrade. But expensive

[@Encaendium]

Road to 50k! Great videos as always👌

[@bernardanderson3758]

Now that there’s ways to saving a lot of money and what is the way to win those Bose

[@anthonydail6596]

If you need someone to hold a camera, I can do that for you! I’m liked and subscribed, plus I watched all this video. It’s neat to see people work on planes and learn from that. In addition, I dont understand why some planes still have old lighting .. a cheap flash light are better than some landing lights I see. If I had a plane, I would definitely have good lighting on there! In addition, ADSB as well.. people spend 200k on a plane but won’t spend a few extra bucks to get that stuff installed .. I don’t get it

[@CarlSmithAviationBroker]

Thx for the channel! About what did that lighting upgrade cost? Is there an appreciable energy savings?

[@aviation4fun]

Hey Tommy, how much are you selling the Arrow for? Great and informative Video by the way.

[@ESPS_90]

Could you tell what other brand of tools you use please ?

[@aviatrixantics]

Replace the wingtip bulbs with LED light bulbs. No wiring required and takes less than 5 minutes.

[@gear_down]

Cheap & ugly looking

[@aviatrixantics]

@@gear_down You must be talking about your factory wingtips you installed those lights into. ;)

[@MartianLivesMatter]

I’m starting my commercial beginning of next year and need a headset. Was going to buy a second hand set of A20’s. A chance to win a new set of A30’s is bloody awesome. I live in Australia so hope that’s all sweet if I win.

[@r6racer53]

How come you didn't reinstall those clear plastic wing markers to let you know the lights work from inside?

[@royshroud9536]

Was that Romeo - Sierra parked beside you?

[@michaelfisher2574]

No STC on the led conversation?

[@kkelley85]

Not if the lights are pma'd for the aircraft.

[@gear_down]

Nope whelen has both STC & PMA’s so it’s airframe dependent, but in my opinion as an A&P I/A this is considered a minor modification, and as such and owner can perform the task.

[@nomasando5020]

Hey! Do you own all those planes in the hangar or do you manage them?

[@visaartier9582]

Inspired

[@JCON631]

You put that hat back on like it was an emergency! 🤪

[@antoniog9814]

36:29 You have to put the old one back on. You forgot to show a before & after to compare brightness.

[@ltmedic3]

Whenever I wire up stuff in a car and have a positive and ground wire I put the opposite connector on each wire so it is impossible to mix up positive and ground. Are these LED visable with NVG's? As we fly around we find more and more towers with LED that we cannot see with NVG's

[@aviatrixantics]

What about the belly beacon? ;)

[@gear_down]

This plane does not have one

[@AmericanPiddler]

50K subs here we come bruh 😎

[@avtorjsh6399]

Come on get to 50k already 😢😢😂

[@KSOULJA114]

W man's 🏆🇺🇲

[@KSOULJA114]

Get you a butane lighter, heat swrink tool. It's small, nice add on for your tool case.

[@lukebelvin4900]

They call em WAT lights because that's what you say when you see the price

[@martinhristozov6277]

🤘🏼🤘🏼this is sickkk

[@faysonsantos745]

I need that headset !! Nee pilot here Looking forward to be you right seat in day with my new headset lol #Gear_downAvitation

[@faysonsantos745]

Niceeee🎉

[@NineTango]

Beaut!

[@pablollega3368]

How can I enter to win those Bose?😫😫 so tired of the schools David Clark’s lol

[@gear_down]

I say pretty clearly in the videos what you have to do

[@pablollega3368]

@@gear_downlike comment and subscribe? Been doing that for a while lol I really look up to you and owens

[@patricksmith2249]

I first need to upgrade to owning a plane lol 😂

[@JabariHunt]

Very nice!

[@katel6748]

Come on people. We need to get him to 50k so I can win the Bose headphones!

[@anthonydail6596]

I dont understand why some planes still have old lighting .. a cheap flash light are better than some landing lights I see. If I had a plane, I would definitely have good lighting on there! In addition, ADSB as well.. people spend 200k on a plane but won’t spend a few extra bucks to get that stuff installed .. I don’t get it

[@anthonylabarca9114]

Lemme win that headset 🥹🥹🥹

[@FearrariDealer]

Dont Quit Your Day Job.🤣🤣

[@mihlemteto6186]

Hate x Hate= Like😅

[@michaelsmith5463]

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[@athenamedicalgroup9043]

R44 is a great place to start and a buy. After you get a couple hundred hours you’re really going to enjoy the MD500. (H500C is good start but the NOTAR is a gas.) I have 9K RW and 2K FW., MEL and getting back into my IFR. Really like your style. You might look at Gazelle. SA341/342. It’s like a big H500. VNE 168kts. Sometimes they are cheaper than H 500s. BTW, I agree with your decision, not to fly true IFR in an SEL VNY to FAT. I have done it over the same route, even up to KTVL, KMEV many times, obviously with no issue but it’s a risk. Did it more often in a B60 Duke, which was cake. On the other hand, having flown >9000 hours in helicopters, I probably have a different risk tolerance than you do. Good luck.