New Approach lighting at NZAA

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Postby towerguy » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:41 pm

just a photo of the new touchdown zone and supplemetary approach lighting on 23L



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Postby ardypilot » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:14 pm

Fancy- how did you obtain that photograph then?
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Postby pois0n » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:16 am

There was an article about that in the 'Vector' magazine I got a few days ago
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Postby HardCorePawn » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:33 am

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Postby ZK-Brock » Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:55 pm

pois0n wrote:
QUOTE(pois0n @ Aug 1 2007, 04:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
There was an article about that in the 'Vector' magazine I got a few days ago

Yeah I saw that, I don't ever remember signing up for Vector though! Good article though.
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Postby pois0n » Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:20 pm

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QUOTE(ZK-Brock @ Aug 6 2007, 02:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah I saw that, I don't ever remember signing up for Vector though! Good article though.


Yeah me too, I think the CAA send it out to people who are registered having medical certificates with them or something plane.gif
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Postby ZK-KAG » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:27 pm

Awesome thanks TG. Great article in the Vector this month smile.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:38 pm

Nice Screenshot TG ohmy.gif
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Postby Kelburn » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:14 pm

whats the name of that type of approach light.
e.g. RAIL etc.
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Postby ZK-KAG » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:22 pm

Using my limited knowledge...

I think its a CALVERT-2
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Postby Kelburn » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:24 pm

what about 5L?
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Postby ZK-KAG » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:42 pm

Not the same...Still without the extra red lights and the touchdown zone lights
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Postby kiwiflyboy » Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:13 pm

Well seems the new lighting was in aid for the CAT III ILS, heres a video of an aircraft doing a CAT III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wnl1Ut--o
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Postby ZKTOM » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:06 pm

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