by Matt Farrell, aka The Flying Salesman | Jul 24, 2026
Agricultural aviation is hard on airplanes. That point was driven home during a recent conversation at the National Agricultural Aviation Association show. While talking with Ag pilots about LED lighting upgrades, we heard something that stopped us in our tracks:...
by Matt Farrell, aka The Flying Salesman | Jul 23, 2026
If you have shopped for LED landing lights, nav/strobes, or beacons for your Cessna or Piper, you have run into a wall of acronyms — TSO, PMA, STC — and a price gap that makes no sense until someone explains it. A “meets FAA standards” LED bulb shows up...
by Matt Farrell, aka The Flying Salesman | Jul 22, 2026
Shopping for a landing light, you’ll run into big, confident numbers: “10,000 lumens!” “200 watts!” The uncomfortable truth — neither tells you how well you’ll actually see the runway. The number that matters is candela, and...
