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    An approach lighting system (ALS) is a lighting system installed on the approach end of an airport runway and consisting of a series of lightbars, strobe...
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    instrument landing system (ILS) is a precision radio navigation system that provides short-range guidance to aircraft to allow them to approach a runway at night...
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  • Pilot-controlled lighting (PCL), also known as aircraft radio control of aerodrome lighting (ARCAL) or pilot-activated lighting (PAL), is a system that allows...
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    the approach lighting system and crashed into a berm encasing a concrete structure that supported an antenna array for the instrument landing system (ILS)...
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    A lighting control system is intelligent network-based lighting control that incorporates communication between various system inputs and outputs related...
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    the CTAF or dedicated pilot controlled lighting (PCL) frequency. The precision approach path indicator system was first devised in 1974 by Tony Smith...
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    Francisco International Airport bound for Tokyo, the aircraft struck approach lighting system structures located past the end of the runway; this initial mishap...
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    final approach course, and information about the landing runway. The middle briefing strip includes procedure notes, the approach lighting system, and...
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  • Index of aviation articles Approach lighting system (ALS) Leading lights Optical landing system (OLS) Pilot controlled lighting (PCL) Runway edge lights...
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    land and hold short operations (LAHSO). Approach lighting system (ALS) – a lighting system installed on the approach end of an airport runway and consists...
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    Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light...
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    1958 the instrument landing system to runway 28 was augmented with a 3,000-foot high-intensity-approach lighting system. With the use of the Century...
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  • code used to transmit information about radio navigation aids, airports, lighting facilities, dangers to aircraft, and actions related to search and rescue...
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  • Aircraft Leasing Services, a Kenyan airline Approach lighting system, an airport runway lighting system San Luis Valley Regional Airport, IATA code ALS...
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  • needed. Different strategies for task lighting exist. The three main approaches are: Localized average lighting, where a lamp supplies both ambient light...
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    his airspeed, not the shown ground speed. To avoid striking the approach lighting system, they veered the DC-10 off Runway 04R using the aircraft's rudder...
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    LaGuardia Airport to extend the runways, improve approach lighting systems, and add an instrument landing system to the runway that was involved. Flight 320...
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  • (telecommunications), a telephone service Rabbit, sequenced flashing lights in an approach lighting system for air traffic Rabbit Semiconductor, a micro-controller manufacturer...
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    when he realized the plane would overrun the runway and hit the approach lighting system (ALS) for runway 31. That action caused a "ground loop", making...
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  • dragster Runway alignment indicator lights, a configuration of an approach lighting system Rule Augmented Interconnect Layout, a specification for expressing...
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    Douglas DC-10 operating the flight was approaching the airport, it collided with the approach lighting system (ALS) 500 feet (152 m) short of the runway...
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    a low cloud base at Ängelholm, so air traffic control lit its approach lighting system. As the civilian sector at Swedish Air Force base F 10 Ängelholm...
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    with approach lighting system known as "Precision Approach Lighting Category 1", while Runway 31 was equipped with "Simple Approach Lighting System". Airside...
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  • information manual : (TC AIM). Transport Canada. OCLC 1083332661. "CNS/ATM Systems" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. "FAR/AIM Series". Aviation...
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    (HIRL). Runway 6 approach has an Instrument Landing System (ILS), and a Medium Approach Lighting System-R (MALS-R). Runway 24 approach is equipped with...
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    a 5,002-foot crosswind Runway 10/28. An approach lighting system was added in 1959 to the runway 34 approach end. The main runway was extended 700 feet...
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    service after repair. On July 30, 1971, Pan Am Flight 845 struck approach lighting system structures while taking off from San Francisco for Tokyo, Japan;...
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    airport providing incorrect wind information for the approach; absence of an approach lighting system; incorrect assessment of the condition of the runway...
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    ended with the Douglas C-47B hitting the outermost pole of the approach lighting system before crashing into a field and catching fire. The crash killed...
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    ground proximity warning system (GPWS) announcing minimums. About a second later, the captain stated that he had the approach lights in sight. According...
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