Originally Posted by
peekay4
All else equal it's better to give pilots the full picture rather than hiding info from them.
Indeed. And one thing that's hidden from the pilots in a night visual approach is the runway ident, such as 28R, painted on the runway – not that clearly, but visible in daylight, not of course at night.
Suppose you replaced the arrays of red and white approach lights before the threshold (see photo on page 7 of this thread) with lights spelling the runway ident, suitably elongated on the ground so as to be readable from the angle of the approach?
And at places with a history or danger of taxiway approaches or actual landings, such as Seattle's taxiway T (or this one at SFO), maybe put lights similarly before the 'threshold' of the taxiway, spelling TAXIWAY or TWY, readable from the angle of the approach?