BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Anybody know exactly how the system works? This post really could have gone here or under "your the captain" but we were taxiing out of Jacksonville, NC last night and at the start of the taxi all the runway, taxiway and approach lights were on due to a bunch of Cobras who had been doing pattern work. We had to sit out a wheels up time in a runup pad and during the sit all the lights went out. We waited until about 3 minutes before our departure time before trying to turn them back on and despite clicking 7, 5 or 3 times the only thing that would come on was the approach lighting. So we WERE on the correct frequency, and it WAS working, but only for the rabbit and approach lights.
During that time period Wilmington cleared us to go, but of course, post CMR5191, nobody is going to take off on a dark runway anymore (it's actually in our manual now that we can't). So the FO kept trying to get the lights on and after a few times of him trying everything came up and off we went.
Any ideas why the first few times we could only get the approach lighting to come on?
During that time period Wilmington cleared us to go, but of course, post CMR5191, nobody is going to take off on a dark runway anymore (it's actually in our manual now that we can't). So the FO kept trying to get the lights on and after a few times of him trying everything came up and off we went.
Any ideas why the first few times we could only get the approach lighting to come on?