Your experience with mike lip lights

[Big Pratt]

Has anybody got any experience using mike mounted lip lights?
If so, what do you think about them? There's a lot of choices as far as light colours go, so which ones would you recomend?

I find them a little pricey but standard LED headlamps only come in vivid white that just kills night vision.

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[CH124 Driver]

We're issued them for our flying helmets, I think it's one of the best things I've ever been issued. It shines where you look and is quite handy for reading approach plates or anything else. Ours are NVG green lights, so it kind of makes some of the things on the map a little hard to see, but it's not hard on the night vision. I use mine all the time.

[gryphon]

I find they're only good close up....maybe I'm going blind.
I agree, the NVG green doesn't do much for clarity, but it is a necessity for NVG ops.
All in all, not too bad. Finger lights are great too for switch selection at night.

[w squared]

If the regular LED lights are the wrong colour, just get yourself one of the black-barreled (alcohol based) Staedler markers in red. Then you can make the lens of the headlamp whatever colour you want. If you want it darker, just apply more coats.

Amazing what you can learn from an old infanteer, isn't it?

[Big Pratt]

Thanks for the tips guys. Good stuff.

Oh and w squared, does it mean that if I use a black marker I get black light???

[w squared]

Yeah. Sure. Use a black Staedler and you can have black lite in the cockpit. It's still up to you to recruit the gogo girls wearing body paint that flouresces in the LED powered nightclub that is your cockpit.