airports, airspace and flight information chapter 3, section a
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Airports, Airspace and Flight Information
Chapter 3, Section A
Visual Glide Slope Indicators
• Two-bar VASI
• Three-bar VASI
• PAPI
• Tri-colored VASI
Runway Lights
• Runway Edge Lights
– White - amber last 2,000 feet
• Threshold Lights
– Green approach
– Red departure
• Displaced Threshold lights
– Green on edge of runway
Runway Lights
• Touchdown zone lights TDZL– white flush - 100 to 3000 feet
• Runway Centerline lights RCLS
– white flush last 3000 to 1000 are red/white
– last 1000 are all red
• Land and hold short– five flush at hold short point
Runway Lights
• Taxi-lead off lights yellow and green• Taxiway centerline - green• Taxiway edge lights - blue• Pilot Controlled Lighting
– 7 clicks of mic in 5 seconds
– reduce intensity with fewer clicks
– Last for 15 minutes
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