David Luff writes: > Now, that I've edited a few taxiways, I could do with some advice on > airport lighting before sending them off to Robin Peel. Documentation on > taxiway lighting seems quite (very) hard to come by, so could some airport > users give me some advice for various classes of airports.
I'm no expert so if someone has better information, please share it. > Do aprons have edge lighting? Do large GA airports typically have > taxiway edge / center lighting? Small GA airports? Do taxiways > tend to be lit either all or none, or just the main ones sometimes. I don't think there are hard and fast rules for this. Ultimately real people spend real time and real money installing real lights. So a lot of times, smaller airports with smaller budgets have no taxiway lighting at all. KDEN has all it's taxiways very well lit, and has the green centerline lights pretty much every where. That is a newer airport. KMSP doesn't have nearly the same amount of green centerline lighting. It is a bit older airport. I'm guessing things like centerline lighting need to be installed when the taxiway is built. The surest approach would be to go poke around the actual airport, or pay close attention when you fly in/out for real. If you found the airport adminstrator and explained what you wanted to do, you might be able to get some good information from them ... maybe a lighting or wiring diagram? That would tell you pretty quick which taxiways were lit and which ones had centerline lights. If you don't want to go through all that effort, you probably have to just make your best guess. For what it's worth, a couple weeks ago I had a chance to visit a driving sim at the KMSP airport. They used their simulator for training emergency and utility vehicle drivers. Their MSP airport model is *very* impressive. They have every surface, every light, every sign modeled exactly as it is in real life. Their vendor came out and took something like 3000 digital photos for use in the 3d models. They of course had access to all the airport diagrams. They even put in the 5 tunnels and made them drivable. I don't expect that we would go to that level of detail, but if you can find the right person, and say the right sorts of things, that kind of information is probably available for most airports. > A few screenshots of the first one I've finished BTW: > > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/KGYY-1.jpg > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/KGYY-2.jpg > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/KGYY-3.jpg > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/KGYY-4.jpg > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/KGYY-5.jpg > > with the first 2 showing the current FG runways, and the final 3 the edited > airport. Looks great. Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
