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).
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).
PLEASE NOTE: Anchorage International was ahead of the curve and an early adopter of LEDline® and installed an early style of our linear visual aid back in 2006 -2007. The units then were glued directly into the 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 in the fall of 2009 for their de-icing pads, the new modern style of LEDline® with 12 x LEDs and their embedded precision optics were available so each lamp was installed within its own Mounting Plate and the LEDline® lamps were/are easily accessible for any maintenance.
The LEDline® there has lasted a long time, therefore, for any Vancouver International references, please contact
HIL-Tech at nhutchins@cogeco.ca or 905 849-6134
Installed IN THE FALL 2009 the LEDline® At Vancouver is still working to this day 2024. IT HAS NEVER BEEN TURNED OFF SO HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY ON AND WORKING 24/07 FOR SOME +14 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® there.
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