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llanfairpg
9th Dec 2007, 17:22
Does any airfield in the UK still use portable goose neck flare runway side lighting?
chevvron
9th Dec 2007, 17:26
With paraffin the price it is? You gotta be joking.
bunnywabbit
9th Dec 2007, 18:29
Sandown on the Isle of Wight has a set and they do use them when they have volenteers to set it all up! It is very larbour intensive and cold work.
Contacttower
9th Dec 2007, 18:36
Is Sandown ever actually open at night?
bunnywabbit
9th Dec 2007, 20:20
Sometimes!
Its up to the members and volenteers etc to set up the lighting. If its blowing a gale or raining its a no go and sometimes its a a dash to Morrisons to buy lighters. Generally speaking it is not open at night but has the goose necks.
Chuck Ellsworth
9th Dec 2007, 20:29
We used a roll of toilet paper soaked in fuel oil in tin cans to light our runways in the high Arctic.
Cheap to buy and all it took was someone to light them as needed.
Worked great and as a bonus if the wind was strong enough to blow them out you couldn't land. :E
I know a small airfield in Cambridgeshire that uses skip (dumpster) lights with rechargeable batteries!
bookywooky
9th Dec 2007, 21:16
I think that you will find that Dunkeswell use them, but for emergencies only.