Airport Lighting Aids - Aim

Front 1

Provides the basic means to transition from instrument flight to visual flight for landing

Back 1

Approach light system (ALS)

Front 2

ALS distance for precison instrument runway

Back 2

2400-3000 FT

Front 3

ALS distrance for NON precision instrument runways

Back 3

1400-1500 FT

Front 4

Two-bar VASI provides ____visual glide path(s)

Back 4

One

Front 5

Three bar VASI provides ___visual glide path(s)

Back 5

Two

Front 6

VASI visibility during the day

Back 6

3-5 Miles

Front 7

VASI visibility at night

Back 7

20 miles or more

Front 8

2-bar VASU red over red

Back 8

below glidepath

Front 9

2-bar VASI red over white

Back 9

on glidepath

Front 10

2-bar VASI white over white

Back 10

Above glidepath

Front 11

PAPI day visibility

Back 11

5 miles

Front 12

PAPI night visibility

Back 12

up tp 20 miles

Front 13

PAPI provides safe obstruction within

Back 13

+/- 10 degrees of extended RWY centerline; 4 SM from runway threshold

Front 14

VASI provides safe obstruction within

Back 14

+/- 10 degress of extended RWY centerline; 4 NM from RWY threshold

Front 15

VASI/PAPI descented should not be initiated until the A/C is

Back 15

Visually aligned with the runway

Front 16

Tri-color system RED indicates

Back 16

Below glidepath

Front 17

Tri-color system AMBER indicates

Back 17

Above glidepath

Front 18

Tri-color system GREEN indicates

Back 18

On glidepath

Front 19

Tri-color system day visibility

Back 19

1/2-1 Mile

Front 20

Tri-color stystem night visibility

Back 20

Up to 5 miles

Front 21

Pulsating system day visibility

Back 21

4 miles

Front 22

Pulsating system night visibilty

Back 22

Up to 10 miles

Front 23

Runway end indentifier lights (REIL) provide

Back 23

Positive ID of the approach end runway

Front 24

On instrument runways, yellow edge lights replace white lights the last ____Ft or ____ of the runway

Back 24

2,000; half

Front 25

Runway centerline lights are placed at the ____foot intervals along the runway centerline

Back 25

50

Front 26

Centerline lights are white until the last ____ feet of the runwa and alternate red and white the next ____feet

Back 26

3,000; 2,000

Front 27

The last ____feet all centerline lights are red

Back 27

1,000

Front 28

Touchdown zone lights start ____ feet beyond the ____

Back 28

100; landing threshold

Front 29

Touchdown zone lights extend ____ feet beyond the _____

Back 29

3,000; landing threshold

Front 30

Taxiway lead off lights colors

Back 30

Alternating green and yellow

Front 31

Runway status lights (RWSL) use

Back 31

Info to pilots unsafe to enter, cross, takeoff, or land on RWY

Front 32

When activated, red runway entrance lights indicate

Back 32

High speed traffic on runway or A/C on final approach withing activation area

Front 33

When a departing A/C is approximately ___ knots, all taxi REL lights will illuminate

Back 33

30

Front 34

REL exinguish approximately ____ seconds before A/C reaches intersection

Back 34

3-4

Front 35

An A/C is declared in a taxi state at approximately ____knots

Back 35

34

Front 36

Alll REL will illuminate when an A/C on final approach is ____ mile(s) from the runway

Back 36

1

Front 37

Below ___knots, all REL arrways that are not within ___seconds of A/Cs forward path are extinguished

Back 37

80;30

Front 38

RELs are _____directional

Back 38

Uni

Front 39

REILs are ____directional

Back 39

Omni or Uni

Front 40

THLs are ____directional

Back 40

Uni

Front 41

Takeoff hold lights (THL) extend ____ feet in front of the holding A/C at a point ____feet from the departure threshold

Back 41

1,500: 375

Front 42

Runway intersection lights (RIL) extend ____ feet in fron of an A/C aproaching an intersecting runway

Back 42

3,000

Front 43

Beacon marking airports, landmarks, and points o federal airways flash ___to ___ per minute

Back 43

24 to 30 times

Front 44

Beacon marking heliports flash ___ to ___per minute

Back 44

30 to 45

Front 45

White and green beacon

Back 45

Lighted land airport

Front 46

Green, yellow, and white beacon

Back 46

Lighted airport

Front 47

White and yellow beacon

Back 47

Lighted water airport

Front 48

Military airport beacons flashes differeniate from civil airport beacon flashes by

Back 48

Dualpeaked white flashes between green flashes

Front 49

Operation of airport beacon during the day indicaties ground visibility is ___and/or ceiling is less than____

Back 49

3 miles; 1,000 feet

Front 50

Taxiway edge light color

Back 50

Blue

Front 51

Taxiway centerline lights color

Back 51

steady green