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VE3LVO(at)rac.ca
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: Strobes

Craig,

        I read your latest paragraph regarding lighting and noted that's 

it's all "I" and no "we". Manoeuvring around an airfield, particularly a 

busy one, is very much a community thing, not a solitary event.

        While you are not bothered by another's strobes on the tarmac, many 

others are, me included.  If you were to sit up at 20 feet in Chicago O'Hare 

and every aircraft had on strobes, you would appreciate the confusion and 

wariness that occurred.

        Strobes don't quickly indicate speed, turns or direction. That's why 

we copied ships and used coloured lamps - which do all three. Trying to 

guess the progress of conflicting traffic between flashes is a mug's game 

and unsafe. It is unnecessarily distracting and time-wasting when time's in 

short supply.

        Strobes are designed to be seen many miles away, not several feet.

        Turning strobes on at Take-off clearance tells everyone who's the 

primary traffic on the live runway,  and the tower that the clearance has 

been received and acted on.... and it does so without bothering anyone.

If the clearance wasn't issued, it draws attention to the tower that danger 

is building and the take-off stopped if possible.



"I'm sure the flames will start, and the name calling will follow, but I'd

rather be an a*****e than an accident statistic."



        Safe, co-ordinated airport traffic is not necessarily about what 

you'd rather be. It's more concerning about what you'd rather not cause.



        Turning landing lights on descent through 10.000 feet is not about 

aircraft collisions, it's training bird flocks to avoid aircraft.



Ferg Kyle

Europa A064 914 Classic

PS: I think the argument for rotating beacons has more merit.

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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:06 pm Post subject: Strobes

Ferg,

 Nicely said.

 Stan Sutterfield

 Do not archive

  

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		          I read your latest paragraph regarding lighting and noted that's 

it's all "I" and no "we". Manoeuvring around an airfield, particularly a 

busy one, is very much a community thing, not a solitary event.

        While you are not bothered by another's strobes on the tarmac, many 

others are, me included. 	


 



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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject: Strobes

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