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Old 20th December 2011 | 18:36
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Sir George Cayley
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All airport lighting is interleaved. That is to comply with ICAO Annex 14 which requires that no 2 adjacent lights should both fail.

What it means is that separate circuits power 50% of each service e.g. Approach lights, Edge Threshold and End.

So the chances of both circuits failing and robbing you of all the approach lights is in to the 10 x e7 category.

EU Ops gives a table of degradation to help permit commanders decide to land or divert but it takes no account of real world command control and power supply provisions.

Sir George Cayley
 
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