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Old 12th Nov 2022, 10:32
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deltahotel
 
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Cranfield being CD. With my slightly nerdy yachtie head on all maritime lights have a colour (default white), characteristic (Fl, Occ numbers etc) and a period eg Fl (2) 5sec would be two white flashes every 5 seconds.

Airfield ident lights are red (military) and green (civ) and Morse coded to the airfield so I guess that detail is not portrayed on the aeronautical chart.

Coincidentally we had this conversation in the car two days ago:

’Didn’t there used to be a flashing red light at Waddington?’
’Yes, it’s the Pundit flashing a morse ident, probably WA’
’Why’s it called a Pundit?’
’mmmmmmmm’. Goes to google.
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