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Old 12th Mar 2015, 07:29
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Say Mach Number
 
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I understand from the info I have there are no runway centre line lights at this airport.

When i saw this it reminded me of something that happened to me and who knows might have been a factor with the THY.

Thanks to a good co pilot I got away with it.

Landing from minimums with low vis and blowing crosswind, when I broke out of cloud with the aircraft in a crab I got sight of the lights and continued towards what I thought was the centreline however it was the left edge of the runway.

My co pilot called go-around, which at the time I didn't understand but knew he must have had a good reason.

Going downwind he explained and then it dawned on me what I had done. During the approach briefing I had made no mention of no centre line lights and assumed the airport had them.

Landed from the second approach but was shocked how my mind had convinced me of an image that looked absolutely right at the time.

In other words did they line up with the edge lights thinking they were on the centre line?

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