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Airport Runway Lighting Guide

Runway end identification lights (REIL) are installed at airports to identify the end of runways. They consist of pairs of synchronized flashing lights located on each side of the runway threshold, flashing between 60-120 times per minute. REIL help identify runways surrounded by other lighting or lacking terrain contrast, and during low visibility. Other lights provide guidance along runway edges and centers, touchdown zones, taxiways, and lighting for instrument approaches. Additional systems alert pilots and vehicles of unsafe conditions for entering, crossing, or taking off from runways.

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Airport Runway Lighting Guide

Runway end identification lights (REIL) are installed at airports to identify the end of runways. They consist of pairs of synchronized flashing lights located on each side of the runway threshold, flashing between 60-120 times per minute. REIL help identify runways surrounded by other lighting or lacking terrain contrast, and during low visibility. Other lights provide guidance along runway edges and centers, touchdown zones, taxiways, and lighting for instrument approaches. Additional systems alert pilots and vehicles of unsafe conditions for entering, crossing, or taking off from runways.

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RUNWAY

LIGHTINGS
RUNWAY END IDENTIFICATION LIGHTS
(REIL)
• ARE INSTALLED AT MANY AIRPORTS TO PROVIDE
RAPID AND POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION OF THE
APPROACH END OF A PARTICULAR RUNWAY.

• THE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A PAIR OF


SYNCHRONIZED FLASHING LIGHTS LOCATED
LATERALLY ON EACH SIDE OF THE RUNWAY
THRESHOLD
RUNWAY END IDENTIFICATION LIGHTS
(REIL)
• IDENTIFICATION OF A RUNWAY
SURROUNDED BY A PREPONDERANCE OF
OTHER LIGHTING
• IDENTIFICATION OF A RUNWAY WHICH
LACKS CONTRAST WITH SURROUNDING
TERRAIN
• IDENTIFICATION OF A RUNWAY DURING
REDUCED VISIBILITY
FLASHING RED or WHITE LIGHTS  WITH A
FLASH FREQUENCY BETWEEN 60 AND 120
PER MINUTE.
RUNWAY END LIGHTS
• ARE PROVIDED IN A LINE ALONG
THE LANDING THRESHOLD AT THE
TOUCHDOWN END OF A RUNWAY
AND DEFINE THE BEGINNING OF
THE DECLARED LANDING DISTANCES
THEY ARE GREEN AND CAN ONLY BE
SEEN FROM THE APPROACH.
RUNWAY EDGE LIGHTS
• USED TO OUTLINE THE EDGES
OF RUNWAYS DURING PERIODS OF
DARKNESS OR RESTRICTED VISIBILITY
CONDITIONS.
• THE MAJORITY OF RUNWAY EDGE
LIGHTS ARE CLEAR OR WHITE .
RUNWAY CENTERLINE
LIGHTING SYSTEM

CONSISTS OF A SINGLE LIGHT INSTALLED
 AT UNIFORM INTERVALS ALONG THE RUNWAY 
CENTERLINE TO PROVIDE A 
CONTINUOUS LIGHTING REFERENCE FROM
THRESHOLD TO THRESHOLD.
• THE LIGHTS START FROM 75 ft
(25 M) FROM THE LANDING THRESHOL
D AND EXTEND TO WITHIN 75 FT OF T
HE END OF THE RUNWAY.
• THE LIGHTS THEMSELVES ARE 
SPACED AT 50-FT (15 M) INTERVALS.
TOUCHDOWN ZONE LIGHTS
• ARE INSTALLED ON SOME
PRECISIONAPPROACH RUNWAYS TO
INDICATE THE TOUCHDOWN ZONE
WHEN LANDING UNDER ADVERSE
VISIBILITY CONDITIONS
• THEY CONSIST OF TWO
ROWS OF TRANSVERSE LIGHT
BARS DISPOSED
SYMMETRICALLY ABOUT THE
RUNWAY CENTERLINE.
• THE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF
STEADY−BURNING WHITE LIGHTS
WHICH START 100 FEET BEYOND
THE LANDING THRESHOLD AND
EXTEND TO 3,000 FEET BEYOND THE
LANDING THRESHOLD OR TO THE
MIDPOINT OF THE RUNWAY,
WHICHEVER IS LESS
TAXIWAY CENTERLINE
LEAD ON LIGHTS

THEY ARE STEADY BURNING


AND EMIT GREEN LIGHT
LOCATED ALONG THE
TAXIWAY CENTERLINE.
TAXIWAY CENTERLINE
LEAD OFF LIGHTS
• WHERE A TAXIWAY CROSSES A
RUNWAY, OR WHERE A "LEAD-OFF"
TAXIWAY CENTRELINE LEADS OFF OF A
RUNWAY TO JOIN A TAXIWAY, THESE
LIGHTS WILL
ALTERNATE YELLOW AND GREEN.
APPROACH LIGHTING SYSTEM

a lighting system installed on the


approach end of an airport runway
and consisting of a series of lightbars,
strobe lights, or a combination of the
two that extends outward from the
runway end
ALS usually serves a runway
that has an instrument
approach procedure (IAP)
associated with it and allows the
pilot to visually identify the
runway environment and align
the aircraft with the runway
upon arriving at a prescribed
point on an approach.
RUNWAY ENTRANCE LIGHTS

The system adds to the layers of


protection already in place by
providing visual alerts to pilots
and drivers when runway traffic
makes it unsafe to enter, cross, or
begin takeoff.
TAKE OFF HOLD LIGHTS

Illuminated red lights provide a


signal, to an aircraft in position for
takeoff or rolling, that it is unsafe to
takeoff because the runway is
occupied or about to be occupied
by another aircraft or ground
vehicle

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