Airports Flashcards
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Color of taxiway markings
Yellow
Taxiway markings: Centerline
Solid yellow line
Taxiway markings: Edges
Double solid lines, yellow
Taxiway markings: Holding lines
Double solid-yellow and double dashed-yellow lines across width of taxiway
Taxiway markings: Runway holding position
Red sign w/ white characters
Color of runway markings
White
Runway markings: Displaced threshold
Start of landing portion of runway, white boxes
Runway markings: Chevrons
Before displaced threshold, only usuable in cases of emergency
Runway markings: Large white X
Marks an unusable runway
Lights: Taxiway lighting
1) Either green lights on centerline, or
2) blue lights on the edge
Lights: Runway threshold, sideline and end
Threshold = green
Sideline = white
End = red
Lights: Obstructions
Red lights
VASI stands for
Visual Approach Slope Indicators
VASI: red
Low
VASI: white, amber
High
VASI: even # of white and red
On slope
PAPI stands for:
Precision Approach Path Indicators
PAPI: too high
2 white dots
PAPI: on slope
One white dot, one red dot
PAPI: too low
Two red dots
PAPI summary

VASI summary

At what altitude is the normal traffic pattern flown?
1,000 ft AGL
5 legs of normal traffic pattern:
1) Upwind leg
2) Crosswind leg
3) Downwind leg
4) Base leg
5) Final approach