AIRPORT LIGHTING

PREPARED BY: ARUNA KUNWOR

ROLL NO:071-BCE-55
A line of lights on an
airfield to guide aircraft
in taking off or landing
during night
As a guide to pilot
Emergency power
supplies
Different types of light
flashing white or pulsating
yellow to steady red and even blue
General Airport Approach
Lighting lighting

TYPES OF AIRPORT
LIGHTING

Runway
Taxiway lighting
Lighting
 1.General Airport Lighting
Includes Beacon Lights on top of tower,
buildings
The Airport Beacon : large, powerful rotating
light highly visible from miles away
Rotate green and white
Steady red beacon on top of airport building to
aid in collision avoidance for low-flying
aircraft.
At airports Beacon: At Heliports Beacon:
White and Green rotating light White and Yellow rotating light
 2. Taxiway Lighting
Taxiway Edge Lights: Blue, Lines taxiway
Taxiway Center Light: Green Light
Clearance Bar Lights: Steady yellow, visibility
of hold line
Stop Bar Lights: Steady red, ATC in low
visibility situation, across taxiway at hold short
line
Runway Guard Lights: A pair of two steady
yellow light at hold short line, may be flashing
 Taxiway centerline light

Taxiway edge light

Runway Guard light

Steady Bar lights

Clearance Bar lights

 3.Runway Lighting
Runway End Identifier Lights: white flashing
light one on each side of approach end of
runway

Runway Edge Light Systems

(HIRL/MIRL/LIRL):steady white light on
edges of runway

Runway Centerline Lighting System (RCLS)

3.Runway Lighting (Contd..)

Touchdown Zone Lights (TDZL) : Define

landing portion of runway, Up to midpoint

Land and Hold Short Lights (LAHSO)

Runway status light or Runway entry light

(REL)
Min of (2000 ft and half the runway)
 TDZL

RCLS

50 feet interval
100 feet
 4.Approach Lighting
An approach lighting system or ALS, is a
lighting system installed on the approach end
of an airport runway

Consisting of a series of light bars, strobe

lights, or a combination of the two that extends
outward from the runway end
 4.Approach Lighting contd..
Visual glide slope indicators
Visual guide to pilot during descent to maintain
stabilized approach
This includes:
VASIs, or Visual Approach Slope Indicators:
lights indicating aircraft is too high or too low
on approach
PAPI, or Precision Approach Path Indicator
Visual Approach Slope Indicators
VASI
 VASI contd..

Far Bar

Red
Near Bar
White

Below glide path On glide path Above Glide path

Factors Affecting Airport Lighting
Airport classification
Availability of power
Amount of traffic
Nature of aircraft
Type of night operation plan
Type of landing surface provided
Weather condition