Runway & Taxiway Markings

• Runways marked in white• Taxiways marked in yellow

Taxi way Markings - Yellow

Runway Threshold

Taxiway

Displacement Markings

Threshold Markings

Sterile Area

Airfield Lighting

Taxiway Lighting – Blue Edge, Green Centre

PAPIs (Red/White)Threshold (Green)

Approach Lights (White)

Airfield Approach Lights

Threshold Green Lights

White Runway lights

Sterile Area

Red Obstruction Lights

Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPIs)

Threshold Lights

High Visibility “T”

Approach Lights

Lining up on Approach

Landing on Runway 15 – Birmingham Airport

Landing on Runway 15 – Birmingham Airport

Why are taxiway lights and markings so important?

Objectives

• Understand Airfield Layouts• Know how runways are numbered• Know how runways & taxiways are

marked – by day and night• Know how approach lights guide an

aircraft into land

Questions?

Questions

• What does “HAS” stand for?• What colour are obstruction lights?• What colour are threshold lights?• How are taxiways marked in daylight?• What colours are taxiway lights?• What is used on an airfield to show

wind direction?

Questions

• How are runways numbered?• True or False: Pilots will usually

choose to take off with the wind behind them.

• What is a “Sterile Area”?• How is a Sterile Area marked?