Section 7 – Airframe and Systems description
INTERNAL LIGHTS
6. INTERNAL LIGHTS
Internal lights system is composed by following equipment:
• Cabin light, providing lighting for crew and passengers compartment;
• Instruments lights, which in turn are composed by three sub-systems each one fit-
ted with dimming device:
Switches built-in lights
Avionics lights
Cockpit lights
• Emergency light
The cabin light is a ceiling light, fitted with control switches, located on the over-
head panel in correspondence of the crew seats.
About the instrument lights (controlled by a switch on the RH instrument panel),
the switches built-in lights concern the instrument panels switches lighting, the
avionics lights concern the avionic equipment lighting and the cockpit lights con-
cern two lights located on the over-head panel illuminating LH and RH instrument
panels (see Figure below).
All above mentioned lights are supplied by the battery bus apart from the Emer-
gency light which is directly connected to the battery. It is a five-leds light located
in the over-head panel (see Figure below) controlled by a switch installed on the
LH breakers rack.
Figure
– Over-head panel lights arrangement