LIGHTING QUESTIONS

1. What are the three regulatory publications that set out the international
requirements for navigation lights?

2. What are the various colours, angles, intensities, circuit requirements and
luminous intensities for navigation lighting?

3. What kind of voltages can navigation lighting have?

4. Explain the historic development of navigation lighting and anti-collision

lighting, and what aircraft types would you encounter today with flashing
navigational lighting?

5. If the navigation lighting developed a short circuit across the tail navigation
filament, what effect would this have on the navigation lighting system?

6. What would happen if the riding light switch was left switched on,
overnight on the helicopter?

7. What are the various mandatory regulations for anti collision lighting?

8. On the rotating reflector beacon, which lens gives the intense lighting, and
which the more diffuse?

9. Explain the operation internally of a strobe lighting circuit including voltages

and how the capacitor is discharged.

10. What are the safety precautions that must be observed when changing a strobe
lamp, or when operating near aircraft with strobe lighting in use?

11. What would happen if the riding light switch was left switched on,
overnight on the helicopter?

12. What three selections on the searchlight system would result in the searchlight
pointing vertically downwards?
13. What effect would a stuck closed centering switch have on the searchlight?

14. In the leading edge retractable landing lamp system, what stops the actuator at
the 45 angle?

15. In the above system what is the purpose of the cam operated switch?

16. What is the function of the reversing and tracking switches in the flap situated
landing lamp system?

17. What are typical power outputs for landing lamps, taxi lamps and leading edge
ice detection lamps?

18. How long must the emergency lighting operate for on an aircraft?

19. Where do the maintenance lights get their power from?

20. When the baggage compartment lighting microswitch is not closed what
will happen to the lighting circuit?

21. Somebody switches on the nose gear lighting from the wheel well, then the
wheel switch in the cockpit is selected to on what will happen?

22. The supply circuit breaker for the above lighting trips- what will happen next?

23. Explain the principle behind the wedge lighting system, and also why the far
face of the wedges is painted black?

24. What is the depth of lighting and angle of illumination of a pillar light?

25. Why does the bridge lamp system have two separate supplies?

26. How does electro-luminescent lighting work?

27. What is the construction of a self illuminating exit sign, and what are the
safety precautions involved in handling a damaged sign?

28. Explain how the three different dimmer circuits work, and their relative
merits.

29. What would happen to the lighting intensity of the autotransformer dimmer
circuit if the common winding went open circuit?

30. When would you have to replace a light plate panel?

31. What happens to the background lighting for the instruments when the normal
power system fails?

32. What happens in the standby instrument lighting circuit when the normal
power supply is lost?

33. What kind of voltage do instrument internal lighting, and grain of wheat lights
have?

34. What function does a ballast unit carry out?

35. How is the lighting intensity varied in a fluorescent lighting circuit?

36. What happens when the flap is selected to down in the passenger information
system?

37. What then happens when the landing gear is now selected down?

38. What would happen if the landing gear were selected first?

39. What is the purpose of the diode between the flap and gear selector switches?
40. What is the difference between the warning system for attendant call between
the toilet and passenger seating?

41. What happens in the toilet lighting circuit when the aircraft is on the ground
with external power on, that differs from the flight condition?

42. In the emergency lighting circuit, who has the real control of the lighting?

43. If the attendant has the emergency lighting on, can the pilot override the
attendant and switch off the lighting?

44. When does the lighting automatically switch on?

45. The emergency exit locators must be positioned within what heights above the
floor?

46. How long does it take to charge the emergency floor lighting?

47. In the emergency floor lighting that is electrically controlled, how far is the
spacing between the lights?