Accession Number:

ADA063664

Title:

Evaluation of Threshold and Prethreshold Lights for Medium Intensity Approach Lighting Systems

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Mar 1977-Jul 1978

Corporate Author:

NATIONAL AVIATION FACILITIES EXPERIMENTAL CENTER ATLANTIC CITY NJ

Personal Author(s):

• Brown, Guy S.

Report Date:

1978-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

47.0

Abstract:

This report describes the evaluation of runway threshold lights for use with medium intensity approach lights with runway alignment indicator strobe lights MALSR systems. Three different lamps and fixtures were selected for final evaluation. Based on flight tests and photometric measurements, it was concluded that 300-watt, 300PAR56NSP lamps would provide the improved visual guidance and conspicuity of the threshold necessary for operations in visibility conditions as low as Category I, 2,400 feet runway visual range RVR. The green threshold lights spaced 10 feet apart with the outer lights inline with the runway edge lights will conform to ALSF-1 and ICAO criteria for Category I operations. A supplementary test was conducted to evaluate proposed configurations of red wing bar lights in the prethreshold area to augment the threshold lights for improved visual guidance. The test results concluded that, with the bold and distinctive threshold, red prethreshold wing bar lights did not provide appreciable improvement in guidance under the test conditions.

Descriptors:

• *APPROACH LIGHTS
• *LANDING LIGHTS
• VISIBILITY
• MEDIUM INTENSITY
• THRESHOLD EFFECTS
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• AIRPORTS

Subject Categories:

• Terminal Flight Facilities

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE