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Old 4th Aug 2020, 14:45
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The Wawa Zone
 
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The only lights of any use are runway centreline (if you're lucky) and edge and end/thld lights, the rest are just junk information. Other ground lights can actually be a hindrance. I was flying a circuit over a remote strip once where an adjoining street lighting pattern matched the light pattern of the (huge, covered in buttons) HF control head on the right side of the panel. As I turned base I got an optical illusion of the aircraft going in two different directions at once as the street lights moved in my right peripheral vision. Fun (not).
On that basis, having red panel and red ground lights would be problematic.

Black hole ? MSA -> distance vs. altitude checks and/or a good timed circling approach.
As Centaurus says, you want to find the airstrip.
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