AIRPORTS Flashcards
Lettering: Yellow
Sign: Black
Taxiway Location
Runway Location
Lettering: Black
Sign: Yellow
Taxiway Direction
Runway Exit
Lettering: White
Sign: Red
No Entry
Runway Mandatory Instruction
Lettering: White
Sign: Black
Runway Distance Remaining
White lights that outline the edges of a runway during darkness or periods of low visibility.
Runway Edge Lights
Two synchronized, unidirectional flashing lights denoting the end of the runway.
Runway End Identifier Lights (REIL)
Lights in the center line spaced every 50 feet. They start out as white, then alternate between red and white, then are solid red toward the end of the runway.
Runway Centerline Lighting System.
To indicate the touchdown zone in adverse landing conditions, two rows of transverse light bars are installed symmetrically about the runway centerline.
Touchdown Zone Lights
Alternating green and yellow lights are sometimes installed to aid pilots in entering/exiting the runway onto/from the taxiway.
Taxiway Centerline Lead-on/Lead-off Lights.
Pulsing white lights installed across the runway at the hold short point.
Land and Hold Short Lights
Blue light or reflectors used to outline the edge of the taxiway during darkness or low visibility.
Taxiway Edge Lights
Green lights installed along the centerline of the taxiway.
Taxiway Centerline Lights
Three yellow lights to increase visibility of a holding position and to indicate the location of an intersecting taxiway.
Clearance Bars
Installed to point out taxiway/runway intersections. They are a pair of yellow flashing lights on each side of the taxiway. They can be a row of in-pavement yellow lights across the taxiway at marked and signed holding points.
Runway Guard Lights
A row of red lights across the taxiway across the holding position. Air traffic control will turn these lights off and the taxiway lead-on lights on which t issuance of clearance to proceed.
Stop Bars
