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Spitoon 5th Jul 2010 20:56


collects anorak....
Don't you mean Sou'wester?

oldandbald 5th Jul 2010 21:43

For what its worth my 1971 copy of Pooley's lists a large number of aerodromes with Aeronautical Light Beacons, picking some out we have

Southend White/Green ( no code )
Luton Green coding LT (behind the Tower if I remember)
London Heathrow Green coding LH
London Gatwick Green coding GW
Hatfield White / green ( no code )
Cambridge Green coding CI

chevvron 6th Jul 2010 12:51

Details of ABN/IBN for individual civil airfields are in Section AD 2.15 of each airfields AIP entry.
When Niknak mentions '3 letter ICAO codes' I believe he's getting confused between ICAO and IATA; IATA codes have 3 letters, ICAO codes have 4. He mentions 'HUY' which I believe (don't know much about IATA codes) is the IATA code for Humberside. Humberside is not listed as having either type of beacon.

Little One 6th Jul 2010 13:23

IATA-Code: HUY
ICAO-Code: EGNJ
Location: Kingston upon Hull
Airport: Humberside
Country: United Kingdom

Punditgreen 6th Jul 2010 15:42

Humberside had a beacon until 1998 when it became too expensive to keep serviceable. It was a "punditgreen" coded "HS".
Pundits nearly always had a bigraph code which corresponded to the i/d letters in the signals square. AFAIK they were never coded to the approach aid nor to the ICAO "last two", unless these corresponded to the signals square.

PG

ZOOKER 6th Jul 2010 16:53

Yes, yes, yes,
- But why were they called 'pundits'?
Saw the Heathrow installation in '68. Allegedly visible from 30,000 over the English Channel.
EGNX had an aerodrome light beacon, flashing green ('Charlie Alpha'), between the original tower and the grass strip, (01/19).- about where the current ATC facility is sited.
EGCC had a green beacon in the '90s, which superseded an ABn on the hangars north-east of the tower.
EGBB had a green and white ABn, in the early 1970's.

Level bust 6th Jul 2010 16:58

The Luton beacon was indeed behind the Control Tower. It was on the roof of a building on the approach road. I can't remember what the building originally was (before my time), but it ended up as something to do with Vauxhall.

The light went when the building was demolished in the early 70s, if I remember correctly.

2 sheds 6th Jul 2010 17:18


But why were the called 'pundits'
Wasn't it the commercial name of the original ident beacons?


Pundits nearly always had a bigraph code
And there was I thinking that they just flashed two letters in Morse.

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