Direct Comparisons between FAA Taxiway Lights and LEDline® at the Anchorage Re-fueling Area

The pictures below are of the old-style 6 x LED LEDline® safety guidance lighting system. (Today's LEDline® safety guidance lighting, with its modern Mounting Plate, has 12 x embedded LEDS and their precision optics, making it much brighter.)
The picture below directly compares standard FAA taxiway lights and old-style 6 x LED, linear green LEDline® safety guidance visual aids. (Note: Today's modern LEDline® safety guidance lighting has 12 x embedded modern LEDs, so has more than double the light).
As labelled below, the left side lights in the pictures are the standard green FAA / ICAO (incandescent bulbed), taxiway lights. Note the amount of off-angle light pollution the camera captures from these standard airfield taxiway lights. To the right side, the lights in the curving green visual aid line are the old-style 6 x LED, linear green LEDline® safety guidance visual aids. BOTH ARE HIGHLY VISIBLE IN ANY WEATHER. HOWEVER, THE PILOTS AT ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL WROTE TO HIL-TECH AND SAID THAT THEY PREFERRED THE LINEAR LEDline® VISUAL AIDS, ESPECIALLY IN BAD WEATHER! (Please see below copies of the pilot's own survey results.)

Fully Installed Up and Running, LEDline® SAFETY GUIDANCE lighting VISUAL AIDS ARE; - approx. 60% Less Cost Compared to Traditional Point Source Inset Visual Aids. - At Anchorage International, when compared IN ALL WEATHERS BY PILOTS; THE LEDline® VISUAL AIDS WERE clearly PREFERrED (100% of the pilots Voted in favor of the LEDline®)!

The pilots preferred the old-style linear LEDline® safety guidance visual aids to the standard point source airfield taxiway lamps. (Again, today's modern LEDline® safety guidance lamps have 12 x embedded LEDs so have more than twice the amount of light available).
LEDline® melts snow and is visible in any weather. The picture below shows LEDline® in deep snow. The painted guidance markings have long disappeared and only the LEDline® and the standard green FAA taxiway lights are visible.
PLEASE NOTE: Anchorage International was ahead of the curve and an early adopter of LEDline®. It installed an early style of our linear visual aid back in 2006 -2007. The units then were glued directly into the small saw-cut pavement grooves which made accessing the lamps difficult. Therefore, apart from having only 6 x LEDs, these units were difficult to maintain. By the time Vancouver International was ordering LEDline® safety/guidance visual aids for their de-icing pads in the fall of 2009, the new modern style of LEDline® was available with 12 x LEDs and their embedded precision optics. There each lamp was installed within its own Mounting Plate and the LEDline® lamps were/are easily accessible for maintenance. At Vancouver, the LEDline® there has lasted a long, long time (installed in the fall of 2009 and is still in operation today, April 2025), some +15 years and counting). For Vancouver International engineering references, please contact HIL-Tech at nhutchins@cogeco.ca or 905 849-6134

Installed IN THE FALL of 2009, the LEDline® at Vancouver is still working and operational to this day April 2025. the LEDline® there has never been turned off, so it has been constantly on 24/07 and working for over 15 years and counting.

The Vancouver de-icing pad pictured below is by Stuart McIntyre 2010. Please see (the Airfield 3 page) for a more in-depth discussion of the LEDline® at Vancouver International.
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