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.
(Today's LEDline® safety guidance lighting, with its Mounting Plate, has 12 x embedded LEDs
with their precision optics, so are 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 LEDs,
so has double the light).
The above pictures are the same.
Without the labels in the picture, it is hard to differentiate between the
two different types of airfield visual aids.
As labeled, 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 is capturing from these standard airfield taxiway lights).
To the right, 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® SAFETY GUIDANCE VISUAL AIDS,
ESPECIALLY IN BAD WEATHER! (Please see below copies of their survay results).
Fully Installed Up and Running, LEDline® SAFETY GUIDANCE lighting VISUAL AIDS, ARE approx. 60% Less Cost Compared to Traditional Point Source airfiled Inset Visual Aids. At Anchorage International, when compared IN ALL WEATHERS BY PILOTS; THE LEDline® GUIDANCE VISUAL AIDS WERE PREFERrED!
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 twice the amount of light available).
Anchorage International were early adopters and installed an early style of the linear LEDline® back in 2006 -2007. The units then were glued into the sawcut pavement grooves which made accessing the lamps difficult. Therefore, apart from having only 6 x LEDs, these units were much more difficult to maintain.
By the time Vancouver International was ordering LEDline® safety guidance visual aids, the new modern style of able to have and install the modern style of LEDline® visual aids were in use so these were intalled into their de-icing pads fall 2009.
The new modern style of LEDline® lamps had 12 x LEDs and precision optics embedded into the lamps and these lamps were now installed into Mounting Plates which were glued into the sawcut pavement grooves, thus the lamps were available to be easily removed and accessed for any maintenance.
Installed in the fall of 2009 into their de-icing pads, the LEDline® there is still working to this day (January 2024), YET IT HAS NEVER BEEN TURNED OFF SO HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY ON WORKING 24/07 365 DAYS OF THE YEAR FOR SOME +14 YEARS AND COUNTING.
Installed IN THE FALL 2009 inTO THEIR DE-ICONG PADS, the LEDline® there is still working to this day (January 2024). IT HAS NEVER BEEN TURNED OFF SO HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY ON AND WORKING 24/07 FOR 365 DAYS OF THE YEAR FOR SOME +14 YEARS AND COUNTING.
The picture below is by Stuart McIntyre 2010. Please see the Airfild 3 page for a more in-depth discussion of the LEDline® there.
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