mch wrote:
>
>If you have daytime strobes, that's the reason the paint isn't required.
>You have to have the tower painted (correctly) OR use daytime strobes.
>At night, you have to light it using red or night strobes. This applies
>to any tower over 200' tall or close enough to an airport or heliport to
>be a hazard.
>
>
Or a Federal Airway that goes over the top of your mountain. Or
instrument flight approaches. Or being in the buffer zone of an
instrument missed approach corridor. Or near a published helipad. Or
on an unpublished (to the public) military training route -- and those
are often times in places one wouldn't expect them to be.
In other words, there are other things that trigger the need for
lighting/painting other than just proximity to an airport. I get
nervous when I see people try to teach new tower owners with "rules of
thumb" like the "near the airport" rule, so I mention it. (Only 'cause
I'm a pilot and when you're low and slow is no time to spot a new tower
that suddenly sprung up.)
The only way to know for sure is to apply to the FAA and let the folks
in Oklahoma City figure it out.
(Even temporary structures like cranes used for construction are
typically flagged and lighted when they're close enough to an airport,
and there's rules for them too. And it gives one a warm-fuzzy to hear
"Note: Cranes and construction equipment 200 AGL south and west of the
airport." in the ATIS recording and in the NOTAMS when you talk to a
Flight Service Station briefer.)
Nate WY0X
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