Airport Lighting

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Lighted Land Airport Colors
- flashing white and green
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Lighted Water Airports
- Flashing white and yellow
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Lighted Heliport
- flashing white, yellow, and green
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Military Airport
- two quick white flashes and a green flash
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Rotating Beacon
- turned on between sunset and sunrise or when weather conditions are less than VFR
- less than VFR being less than 3 sm and or the ceiling is less than 1000ft AGL
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Three Primary Runway lights
- runway end identifier lights (REIL)
- runway edge light system
- in runway lighting
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REIL
- syncronized flashing white strobe lights located on each side of the runway threshold
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Runway Edge Light System
- outlines all edges of the runways and can increase in intensity
- starts off at a white color, yellow replaces the white o the last 2,000ft, or half the runway length followed by red at the end
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2 Types of In-Runway Lighting
- touchdown zone lighting (TDZL)
- runway centerline lighting systems (RCLS)
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TDZL
- consists of two distinct rows of lights, one on either side and parallel to the runway centerlin lights
- starts at 100ft from the landing threshold and extends to 3,000ft from the threshold or midpoint of the runway
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RCLS
- lighting consists of light spaced at 50ft intervals
- white until last 3000ft and then starts alternating with red for the next 2000ft and becomes all red the last 1000ft
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Taxiway edge lights
- steady blue lights along taxiways
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taxiway centerline lights
- emits a steady green light and are used as a visual aid to pilots to defne the center of the taxiway at night or during low visibility periods
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Class Alpha
- ADS-B out
- TIS - B ( Traffic Information service Broadcast)
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Class Bravo
- minimum of 300,000 aircraft operations per year
- 50% needs to be air carrier or 3.5 million passenger en planements per year
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Class Charlie
- 75,000 operations anually at primary airport or 100, 000 annually at primary and secondary airports or 250,000 passenger an annual passenger en planements
- must have AbS-B Out
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SUA ( special Use Airspace)
- confines certain flight activities to a small area
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Types of SUA
- Prohibited Area (P)
- Restricted Area (R)
- warning area (w)
- restricted area (R)
- Controlled firing area (CFA)
_ Military Operations area (MOA)
- National security Area (NSA)
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