Airport Lighting Quiz

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1. What is the advantage of HIRL or MIRL on an IFR runway as compared to a VFR runway?

Lights are closer together and easily distinguished from surrounding lights.
Amber lights replace white on the last 2,000 feet of runway for a caution zone.
Alternate red and white lights replace the white on the last 3,000 feet of runway for a caution zone.

2. Identify touchdown zone lighting (TDZL).

Two rows of transverse light bars disposed symmetrically about the runway centerline.
Flush centerline lights spaced at 50-foot intervals extending through the touchdown zone.
Alternate white and green centerline lights extending from 75 feet from the threshold through the touchdown zone.

3. Identify runway remaining lighting on centerline lighting systems.

Amber lights from 3,000 feet to 1,000 feet, then alternate red and white lights to the end.
Alternate red and white lights from 3,000 feet to 1,000 feet, then red lights to the end.
Alternate red and white lights from 3,000 feet to the end of the runway.

4. Identify taxi turnoff lights associated with the centerline lighting system.

Alternate blue and white lights curving from the centerline of the runway to the centerline of the taxiway.
Green lights curving from the centerline of the runway to the centerline of the taxiway.
Blue lights curving from the centerline of the runway to the centerline of the taxiway.

5. How can a pilot identify a military airport at night?

Green, yellow, and white beacon light.
White and red beacon light with dual flash of the white.
Green and white beacon light with dual flash of the white.

6. How can a pilot identify a lighted heliport at night?

Green, yellow, and white beacon light.
White and red beacon light with dual flash of the white.
Green and white beacon light with dual flash of the white.

7. What are the indications of Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI)?

High - white, on glidepath - red and white; low - red.
High - white, on glidepath - green; low - red.
High - white and green, on glidepath - green; low - red.

8. What does the pulsating VASI consist of?

Three-light system, two pulsing and one steady.
Two-light projectors, one pulsing and one steady.
One-light projector, pulsing white when above glide slope or red when more than slightly below glide slope, steady white when on glide slope, steady red for slightly below glide path.

9. What are the indications of the pulsating VASI?

High - pulsing white, on glidepath - green, low - pulsing red.
High - pulsing white, on glidepath - steady white, slightly below glide slope - steady red, low - pulsing red.
High - pulsing white, on course and on glidepath - steady white, off course but on glidepath - pulsing white and red; low - pulsing red.

10. What is the advantage of a three-bar VASI?

Pilots have a choice of glide angles.
A normal glide angle is afforded both high and low cockpit aircraft.
The three-bar VASI is much more visible and can be used at a greater height.

11. A pilot of a high-performance airplane should be aware that flying a steeper-than-normal VASI glide slope angle may result in

a hard landing.
increased landing rollout.
landing short of the runway threshold.

12. The higher glide slope of the three-bar VASI is intended for use by

high performance aircraft.
helicopters.
high cockpit aircraft.

13. What is the purpose of REIL?

Identification of a runway surrounded by a preponderance of other lighting.
Identification of the touchdown zone to prevent landing short.
Establish visual descent guidance information during an approach.

14. Identify REIL.

Amber lights for the first 2,000 feet of runway.
Green lights at the threshold and red lights at far end of runway.
Synchronized flashing lights laterally at each side of the runway threshold.

15. What does the tri-color VASI consist of?

Three light bars; red, green, and amber.
One light projector with three colors; red, green, and amber.
Three glide slopes, each a different color; red, green, and amber.

16. Which color on a tricolor VASI is a "high" indication?

Red.
Amber.
Green.

17. Which color on a tricolor VASI is an "on course" indication?

Red.
Amber.
Green.

18. Which color on a tricolor VASI is a "low" indication?

Red.
Amber.
Green.

19. What is the normal range of the tricolor VASI at night?

5 miles.
10 miles.
15 miles.

20. What does the Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) consist of?

Row of four lights parallel to the runway; red, white, and green.
Row of four lights perpendicular to the runway; red and white.
One light projector with two colors; red and white.
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