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Essential Lighting For Heliport Installation Ideas

By Paul Wood


Without lighting, airports functionality is disrupted. The airport becomes a risky place during the night since the light is needed for landing planes or planes taking off. Therefore without lighting, accidents could be caused like crashing while landing. Runways should be lit by lighting for Heliport. When putting up or fixing lights, there are laid guidelines and rules that ought to be followed be it on rooftops, ground or elevated heliports. There are codes to be also followed when installing illumination systems on helipads to ensure uniformity around the world.

Approach lightings to indicate the best approach for helicopter touchdown should be installed for guiding the chopper pilot on how to approach the heliport correctly to safely touchdown. Three rows of light should be used in this system in intervals of 30 meters. 90 meters from the takeoff and the last approach perimeter 18 meters long crossbar should be set. The crossbar holds the light at a right angle to lines of the approach light which are at a spacing of 4.5 meters between them.

Installing more light bulbs beyond the cross bar is an important idea too and a space of 30 meters left. Such light bulbs can be flashy or not but ought to be of a different color to indicate that the endpoint is close. Also, a 210m in length is appropriate if the approach installation for a non-precision final approach and takeoff.

The final approach and take off installation should be made distinct too. More than one light bulb is required meaning that rectangular or even square ones should be constructed to accommodate up to 4 light bulbs, each at a spacing of 50. This is to achieve ample installation in each and every section of the place. The FATO installation interval should be at least 5 meters and a minimum of 10 bulbs installed too. A white color is the conventional suitable one that should be installed.

Pilots need assistance when approaching touchdowns for safe landing and this is where aiming lights become vital. These lights are used to offer this assistance by guiding the pilots on where they should land the crafts. The lights are arranged to form a wedge; this wedge points to the area where the pilot should land and aiming lights used are six, with a light on each of the three corners.

Floodlight and perimeter light bulbs are another part of the installation system which is installed in the touchdown and lift-off area. In case the FATO lights are installed then luminescent panel light bulbs should also be used at a spacing of 3m in elevated ones and for the ground ones a spacing of 5m. Green is the color of these lights, and they can be steady with a minimum of 4 light bulbs each side. If floodlights are to be used then, they are placed at 10m intervals on the floor. The light bulbs must be either at the edge or at a maximum of 1.5m away from the touchdown.

Taxiway and Apron installation are very vital without them then the airport installation is not complete. The conventional installation is blue and Omni-directional. Such lightings are usually powered y a 240v low voltage transformer.

Heliport light installation guidelines can be found from ICAO. The brilliancy of the light ought to be be adjustable to control light intensity in different weather conditions. Lightings could be done correctly in heliports for safety purposes.




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