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This is a great video! As a little girl, I loved flying at night because the beautiful, sapphire blue lights were my very favorite. Now I know how they help guide pilots safely around the airport. I hope you have a great day!

@AirspaceVideos

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, you too! :)

There are variants of PAPI lights, such as a variant with 2 lights, same concept though. Quite sure there's also a variant with one light, with different colours. The Boeing 747 actually wants to have 1 red 3 whites on their approach due to the height of the cockpit.

@DsYkX

Жыл бұрын

Just got a heart, bloody realised that I implied that the 747 itself wants the 3W1R configuration, I doubt it cares, the pilots want that!

@northernlights2817

Жыл бұрын

@@DsYkX Haha, who knows, maybe it does care! 😉

@uzaiyaro

Жыл бұрын

Three whites due to the cockpit height. I think the other one is all reds, I’ll be dead?

@DsYkX

Жыл бұрын

@@uzaiyaro Yes, it is, I think that's what the saying it.

@arkan7rb

Жыл бұрын

didnt know about 747, wondering if a380 also needs 3 white one red ? i cant remember were did i read that first who used papi were russian or am wrong?

I like the PAPIs the best because I currently rarely fly at night and they help me get that perfect approach when I'm landing a 172 on a 11,000ft runway.

u made me fall in love with aviation ❤

Great video, I'm glad to see your channel growing!

I love the blue and green taxiway lights. They inspired me to do my night rating right after I got my PPL(A).

"But wait, there are more" This got me good : ) Thanks for your work and another gem!

Thanks Airspace ! Needless to say very 'enlightening' !

Very interesting video! I thought I had seen videos about most aviation-related topics by now, but nothing detailed about airport lights before, so it was a great choice of topic! Though all your videos are interesting! I also think the airport lights look very beautiful. My favorite is the view of the runway right before landing, with flashing approach lights showing the way "home". Looks pretty cool!

I used to drive by these lights every night after work. I’m also nigh certain the radar or beacons for the runway were responsible for my phone having 5 bars and no reception… On one hand the lights are neat, on the other hand they marked a dead-zone that had my job-site at its edge. ‘Neat, but I’ll keep my distance’

Hmm. To us - they're correctly following the taxi lights . . For the crew - 'We're away with the fairies!' . . . Nice to know : )

Something you see in old footage, a car with a big FOLLOW ME sign on the roof. Low tech but effective I suppose.

I found a pallet of taxi way lights at a surplus shop, paid scrap metal prices for them. I now have 20 modified lights to illuminate my driveway

The fairy lights!

I've been a pilot for Southwest Airlines for over seven years and this is the first time anyone told me that the different colors of lights have different meanings. Maybe everyone figured it didn't matter, since I'm color blind. >>>>>JOKING

As a pilot I can say: Well done. Entertaining and informative. 👍

Great 👍 thanks

Love flying at night in MSFS, this is really gonna enhance that experience. Great video!

Awesome videos, thanks for making them :)

An altogether mesmerizing video! One thing that constantly impresses me is how aircraft don't run over these lights. Many of them appear to stick out of the tarmac surface and be quite vulnerable, or so it seems from a passenger window.

@AirspaceVideos

Жыл бұрын

indeed! I always wonder if I'm one day going to hit one. It's unlikely, though.

@shevi7774

Жыл бұрын

The lights on the taxiway or runway itself, such as the green taxiway lights, runway centerline lights, and touchdown zone lights are all flat on the surface. Tires can run over them with no issues. The other lights such as the runway edge lightning or the blue taxiway edge lights stick out by the edges of the runway / taxiway, but under normal circumstances the aircraft won’t run over them because the tires will never be anywhere near the edges and the wings are very high above the ground. However there have been incidents when aircraft have run over the lights such as during runway or taxiway excursions or wingstrike.

Very cool video!

This was an incredible vid. Thx

thank you Captain for great vid and information i am glad that u have listened and made diversity in the content instead of copy past aci videos keep it up greetings from Yemen

Incredible Work, as always!

Night rating. Used papi alllllll the time.

As a companion to this video, how about a video about all the different lights on the actual airplane. There’s a ton of them.

excellent. well explained and well paced video. can't help but think about the Tenerife disaster and how these lights could have prevented tragedy 😥

Today, I have found this interesting topic. Whenever I see those night landings and takeoff, those lights get my all attention. This is a great video! Thank you so much!

Absolutely wonderful, instructive video!! Bravo!

Nice video

Great video, you are passionate about what you are doing. Goid bless and thank you

Very interesting! There is a lot more information hidden in all the lights than a passenger might suspect at first

Thanks for the video ! Great .

Hi Chris. Thanks, very informative indeed. I've played around with synthetic vision as well (obviously with a safety pilot), and it's been spot onto the TDZ everytime, without ever looking outside. This on a PC12. Take care, safe flying.

I loved this, and i've done alot of photography around these airports! I also worked in very expensive lighting... so like you had crazy with a control board. I wonder what ATC has... At the time we could do 1024 dmx channels of very expensive lights.. anyways, very cool! i wanna see more strobe lights though :P.. they look pretty on planes though!

@biggerandbetterthings7222

Жыл бұрын

Give me a

Good presentation! But I guess that during the Christmas season no big tree with colorful lights, especially if they're blinking, is allowed near the runway?

I learned some things here. Thank you :)

This video was such good timing, as I’ve just finished my 2nd day of a course at my new job providing me full training to become an aeorodrome operations officer! this video along with my notes is very helpful!

@AirspaceVideos

Жыл бұрын

cool, good to know!

I absolutely love this video, it's certainly one of your more niche ones (based on the views) but I think it's one of your best videos. Glad you made it. It's insane how carefully crafted and planned our entire aerospace system is. I really wish we'd take some of these lessons and apply them to other parts of our society. Even if these videos aren't your most popular, I hope you still make them. (I've watched or read about every crash I can imagine at this point and am always down to learn random things about flight. Sadly, I can't become a pilot due to ADHD and the extremely strict FAA regs on it. Oh well, I'll live vicariously through sims and you!)

@AirspaceVideos

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I'm glad someone enjoyed it 😄 I'll definitely continue making these - just covering the hundredth accident gets old with time

I find the strobe lights on approach, right before the runway threshold, really neat. I was planespotting recently on a day of low visibility and got to see those in action. Maybe someone can answer a question: Are the strobes constantly on, or only when an aircraft is on approach? My eyes could have been playing tricks on me, but it seemed like they stopped altogether for a bit and then came back on as another aircraft was approaching.

@Ink_25

Жыл бұрын

I can only speak from my experience EDDH, but they keep all strobes turned on on the approach runway if it's not a really bright hour of the day day

Ohare and several other U.S. airports also us in pavement runway guard lights (has the same wig-wag as the lights on the sides of taxiways) as well the new stop bars. Runway occupancy lights are being installed during heavy maintenance to automate take off clearances (the string of red lights for traffic crossing a runway). ATC is currently being trained on the new system.

That's got to be maintenance intensive...

@AirspaceVideos

Жыл бұрын

very!

I know there’s checkerboard hill for Hong Kong, but I wonder if there are any other places where geography or maybe highways (like that JFK approach seemed to be. Looked like you were following the highway for a little bit), or the like as visual aids.

Could you please do a video on Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108? I don't believe you have done this aircraft yet. Thank you!

@AirspaceVideos

Жыл бұрын

it's going on my list!

Yes indeed and Singapore 🇸🇬 Changi International Airport have long Runways 4000 metres long and Runwat 20R landing Have Runway Overrun Runways truncated within tge Runway.

what do you do if you cant see the papi light due to weather like foggy and heavy raining days?

Would be nice if the row of the Green lights are at the very start of the runway strip, where the "^"s are, so that the aircraft touch down at the start of the "^"s.

@Ink_25

Жыл бұрын

You are not supposed to touch down on the arrows leading up to the landing zone, which is marked with the green lights. That area can be taxied on with a plane, but not landed on

Did runways and taxiways have incandescent lights before LED's came out?

are you still doing investigations of crashes?

@AirspaceVideos

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Why aren't runways properly lit?

why no Papi lights @5:58