David Megginson writes: > Possibly, but from what I've heard, the main reason for centreline lighting > on runways is to support Cat II and III ILS approaches (down to a 50 ft > ceiling); probably, the same applies to taxiway lighting, since you'll have > ground ops in *extremely* low visibility.
I was actually talking about the green centerline lighting on taxiways. DAFIF and FAA do a pretty good job of defining this sort of thing for the actual runways, but little data is available for taxiways. > My home airport, Ottawa, is fairly busy (including two ILS approaches and > lots of big airliners), but we do not have runway or taxiway centreline > lighting anywhere. Montreal/Dorval has centreline lighting on one runway, I > think, but I don't remember seeing it on the taxiways when I flew in at > night, and that's Canada's #2 airport. > > I think that the best thing to do would be to leave taxiway centreline > lighting out by default, and only include it when you have positive > information that it's present in real life (probably only a few airports in > any country). I'd be very surprised to see it anywhere that wasn't a major > airline hub. Agreed. 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
