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CABIN ELECTRONICS
Lighting Tips to Optimize Your Cabin Considering an interior refurbishment? What are some of the lighting tips that will enhance and maximize the functionality and appeal of your airplane’s cabin? Rebecca Applegarth asks the experts. hether you’re flying an older, legacy private jet (or turboprop) with an outdated, heat-emitting lighting system in the cabin, purchased a preowned aircraft and need to adapt the cabin lighting to your specific purposes, or your trip profile has evolved and the lighting that used to work no longer does so, there’s likely to be a good, relatively low-cost solution available to you. As with so many things relating to the cabin, refurbishing the lighting in your aircraft is all about the timing, ensuring cost and downtime are minimized. In some cases, the best time is when the aircraft is down
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for other maintenance requiring the removal of the interior. As one might expect, there’s much more to the selection of a cabin lighting system than meets the eye. When it comes to improving the functionality of the cabin space, your choices will be primarily dependant on the size of the aircraft cabin, and its configuration. Making efficient use of the space available is essential. “In some of the larger business jets, there are forward and aft seating arrangements, often with bulkhead dividers that can be closed off,” Steve Elofson, Senior Avionics Installation Rep at Duncan www.AVBUYER.com
