My early V35A doesn't have any overhead light besides the dome lamp over the rear seats so I'd been on the lookout for something that could illuminate my clipboard better than turning on the dome light, turning up the panel lighting to 11 and/or clenching a flashlight between my teeth. Used a clip on book light for awhile but it didn't quite work out as well as I'd hoped.

I bought an inexpensive headlamp from a sporting goods chain a few months ago. Turns out it's a later version of the one Mike Caban used to supplement his overhead light, made by Dorcy. One big difference is the current version has both a *very* bright white LED, but also has a more standard brightness *red* LED. Uses 3 AAA batteries in a cassette.

What I've done is to mount the headlamp using 'industrial strength Velcro' to the near-vertical surface just aft of the overhead eyeball vents. Folded up, it nests up between the vents; folded down, it's aimed right at the clipboard mounted on my dual yoke and the red LED is a near perfect brightness. The two minor changes I made were (1) removing the hinge screw and turning the forehead piece 180 degrees to improve the fit, and (2) scraping off the thin black closed cell foam pad.

The velcro applied to the headlamp is on the side that is meant to be against one's forehead... that's been turned 180 degrees.