Grass airfields and airfield lighting

Britain's historical airfields.

There are people who are struggling to defend airfields. The aviation community is generally not active among them. The anti-aviation lobby, on the other hand, is amongst those active against maintaining and using airfields.

Local authorities close down airfields in order to redevelop the site, hostile local authorities working within the framework of the planning process. Collateral effects can include flying clubs moving and then receiving complaints from the local population at the new location and campaigns by local residents against increased noise moved in from elsewhere. Regional airports favour commercial transport over General Aviation because it pays better.

The Airfield Lighting Industry.

Airfield operators have no central resource on which to draw support for opposing local authorities. 50,000 UK pilots, the industry from light aircraft maintenance, through to the airfield lighting industry, businesses which benefit from GA, should speak up, support aviation organisations and airfield operators in their campaigns to protect and promote airfields.

Imagine the impact on just one currently wholly viable industry, airfield lighting, where products have been developed and sold for rapid deployment, for remote airstrips, temporary taxiway lighting, obstruction lighting, portable runway lights, approach lighting,  VIS PAPI (Visual Spectrum Precision Approach Path Indicators), four light PAPI systems. Portable Runway Lights have generally been approved by the FAA.

These systems are designed for low energy consumption and are powered by a generator at each end of the runway, consist of Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI), Runway End Identification Lights (REIL), airfield threshold lights, and airfield edge lights, include the power distribution units and all moulded-waterproof cables necessary to operate the system with two 6KW generators. The systems are easily transportable.