Airport Lights - Do You Know Them All? 💡

Have you ever wondered what all those colourful lights at airports are for? Today, we are going ot take a deep dive into the miraculous world of airport lights! We are going to find out why they are used, what you can tell from all these lights and how they help pilots at night to find their way around an airport.
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The Miraculous World of Airport Lights
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[@kristita_888]

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]

Thank you, you too! :)

[@FiveTwoSevenTHR]

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.

[@DsYkX]

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]

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]

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

[@uzaiyaro]

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

[@DsYkX]

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

[@arkan7rb]

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?

[@BillySugger1965]

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

[@selinalavanya9556]

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!

[@goodlessnaren]

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

[@fvngvsxx798]

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

[@fluke196c]

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

[@northernlights2817]

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!

[@Relkond]

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’

[@johnboxxy3432]

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

[@subtolotox]

u made me fall in love with aviation ❤

[@PavlosPapageorgiou]

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]

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

[@shevi7774]

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.

[@loddude5706]

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

[@andrewpinner3181]

Thanks Airspace ! Needless to say very 'enlightening' !

[@Aviator747]

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

[@LinksSpaceProgram]

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

[@oldmandancing]

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

[@arkan7rb]

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

[@OMG_No_Way]

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.

[@mateuszmista738]

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

[@patriciaramsey5294]

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

[@David-uf9hh]

Awesome videos, thanks for making them :)

[@Jadegreif]

The fairy lights!

[@victorcontreras9138]

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?

[@tonys518]

Great 👍 thanks

[@volantee]

Incredible Work, as always!

[@mozsab]

This was an incredible vid. Thx

[@Al-ih1en]

Very cool video!

[@established_on_the_run]

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]

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

[@bluetheta]

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.

[@BrokebackBob]

Absolutely wonderful, instructive video!! Bravo!

[@rockerobertson4002]

Night rating. Used papi alllllll the time.

[@eNevermake]

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

[@steveb1739]

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.

[@biggerandbetterthings7222]

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]

Give me a

[@maxalves5447]

Thanks for the video ! Great .

[@KOlsen1976]

I learned some things here. Thank you :)

[@xkingzx5983]

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]

cool, good to know!

[@WaveFlightSimulations]

Nice video

[@jinxedpenguin]

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]

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

[@uzaiyaro]

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.

[@markdavid7013]

That's got to be maintenance intensive...

[@AirspaceVideos]

very!

[@andrewlee1126]

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

[@TheJillianRussell]

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]

it's going on my list!

[@n310ea]

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

[@mynintendogamingfeed5208]

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]

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

[@Wongwanchungwongjumbo]

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.

[@carterzielinski3618]

are you still doing investigations of crashes?

[@AirspaceVideos]

Yes

[@kbboy101]

Why aren't runways properly lit?

[@you_want_some_gamer8553]

why no Papi lights @5:58