Beautiful day

ASpilot2be

ASpilot2be

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It was an absolutely gorgeous day up here today and was able to grab a couple pictures. Hopefully it stays like this tomorrow, I am scheduled to do a test flight for the FAA to test alternative lighting systems.:)

Sorry they are so bright, I had the camera on the wrong setting.

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Cessnaflyer said:
What type of testing is it?
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It is testing of a lighting system for remote airports. It has a set of green LEDs on each corner of the runway that with GPS, all blink in unison. Along side the runway are reflective panels that with your landing light can be seen miles away.

There will be a helicopter, two Diamond DA-20s, a C-172(which I will be flying), and a PA-30 participating.

It will be interesting to see in person.
 
That test sounds interesting, let us know how it goes!

BTW, nice pics... I miss the winter setting during flight-- but not the cold! :nana2:
 
It was indeed an insane gorgeous day to be in AK and in the Air!

I put 3 hours in over the Sound...I flew to Valdez to fuel up, here is long, long, long final for RWY 6 at PAVD this afternoon.

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Then my buddy Steve (the PAVD airport manager if any of you fly in there regularly) and I flew around a bit in very loose formation in his C172.

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Some kind of boat around Hinchinbrook somewhere's around sundown.

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Hey, as a DOT employee at a remote airfield who spends a fair bit of time knocking lights over with heavy equipment and then fixing them ask those FAA guys to make the new fangled system as tough as possible. Not tough enough to eviscerate my Cessna, but tough enough to withstand an ATV, grader or loader running 'em down.

Cool idea to make 'em reflective instead of powered. Take 7KA for example; today the Vill power was down, so of course the airport lights were down. Village power is unreliable, reflectors will make life safer for all.
 
PICPaul said:
It was indeed an insane gorgeous day to be in AK and in the Air!

I put 3 hours in over the Sound...I flew to Valdez to fuel up, here is long, long, long final for RWY 6 at PAVD this afternoon.

467476031_BGpDB-M.jpg


Then my buddy Steve (the PAVD airport manager if any of you fly in there regularly) and I flew around a bit in very loose formation in his C172.

488407024_mZCyi-M.jpg


Some kind of boat around Hinchinbrook somewhere's around sundown.

488370182_Cm8ct-M.jpg


Hey, as a DOT employee at a remote airfield who spends a fair bit of time knocking lights over with heavy equipment and then fixing them ask those FAA guys to make the new fangled system as tough as possible. Not tough enough to eviscerate my Cessna, but tough enough to withstand an ATV, grader or loader running 'em down.

Cool idea to make 'em reflective instead of powered. Take 7KA for example; today the Vill power was down, so of course the airport lights were down. Village power is unreliable, reflectors will make life safer for all.
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Awesome pictures:drool:

I will be sure to note that. I dont know how they will be mounted, but I am thinking they will be mounted on metal posts. They are being designed for rural, or private air strips.
 
Nice pictures from you two. A nice day to fly in Alaska?? Whaaaat, it's snowing and blowing 25 kts here... :( Winter needs to hurry up and die.
 
This is what my dad must of been talking about how his company just got approved by the FAA to supply LED lighting...but he couldnt talk much about it since it was secret at that time (8 years ago).
 
ASpilot2be said:
We may have gone had the other instructors been there. But it was myself and two new instructors from AZ. Plus it was dark and nobody felt safe shooting across the Knik at 500'.:)
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What what what? Don't worry I don't like to cross the Knik at 500' either. Still why not cross at 999?
 
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