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20 Cards in this Set
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Military Airport Beacon
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2 white lights and 1 green light
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Heliport Beacon
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white, yellow, green light
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Civilian Airport Beacon
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1 white, 1 green light
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Waterport Beacon
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1 yellow, 1 green light
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Taxi-way road color
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one yellow solid center stripe and two dotted yellow edge lines if crossable, two solid edge lines if not crossable
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Runway road color
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white dotted center line with hundreds and thousands place marker of compass orientation and white “piano keys”
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Piano keys
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indicates where airplane should "touch down" on runway.
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Hold marker
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two yellow dotted lines and two yellow continuous lines across roadway for land and hold short operation
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Stopbar
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two yellow continuous lines across taxiway with 4 squares between the two continuous lines
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Vehicle lines
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dotted white center line with two parallel continuous edge lines or zipper style lines
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VASI
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Visual approach slope indicator
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What is VASI's range?
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10 degrees and 4 NM
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What does the VASI light system look like?
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2 (near, far) or 3 (near, far, middle) light bar system, red means below path and white means above path. near light is lowest bar. ideally, near= white, far= red
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PAPI
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Precision Approach Path Indicator, tricolor single row approach path system
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What are the PAPI colors and what do they mean?
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red- below path, dark amber- slightly below path, green- on path, amber- above path
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What does it mean if the approach lights are pulsating?
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Less pulsating=closer to path, more pulsating=further from path. Red=low, white= high
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Taxiway lights
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green and yellow alternating
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Runway lights
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White, white and yellow is instrumented runway
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Touchdown Zone Lights (TDZL)
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rows of white lights
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Obstruction light
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steady red flashing light
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