A Guide For Choosing Lights For Heliport

الأحد، 23 ديسمبر 2018

By Arthur Brooks


Technology has made airports and airstrips more effective and efficient to land on. Without lights in the airports, helicopters could be very difficult to land safely. With lights for heliport, people can travel to and from airports anytime easily and safely. There are many reasons for installing solar lights for the heliport.

Most airfields lighting systems are easy to install. For instance, solar lights do not need experts presents in order to install. Trenching can also be done easily. Airstrips involve a lot of operation that might interrupt lighting systems if not well installed. One goodness with solar lights is that they cannot be interrupted by any activity in the airstrip.

Another reason why installation of solar lights is important in the airports is that its initial cost of installation is low. This means that even an individual person can establish his own airports. The cost of maintaining it is also low. Ac lights are the most preferred lamps since the cost per unit is lower when compared with traditional lamps.

Most times, electricity has not been reliable to the society, this because, it can be affected by weather changes like heavy rains and a shortage of water which is known to generate it. Lack of electricity also makes it difficult for installation of an AC helipad. For this reason, solar lamps are more reliable. It has allowed installation of airfield lights in local areas.

Selecting the best contractor for your lighting equipment for airports is important. This is because there are some other lighting instruments are more energy consumers while others consume very little. By selecting the energy saving ones, you will save slot of money.

Most airfield owners prefer solar systems because of advantages it has. For instance, they are not huge and are portable. This will make it easy when need to move them to another section of the airfield arises. With solar helipads, the cost of transporting it to any place is low. It can also allow temporary installation in specific places that will allow full visibility by the pilots. This makes them flexible. It has also improved the security sector, for example, those in charge can install them in suitable places like inside grassroots hence enemies can easily be identified.

It is advisable that during the night, operations in the airfields, TLOF, taxi routes, and windsocks should be designed in a way that they should be light. Other useful factors that should be considered in the design of the airfield include the landing direction lamps and heliport identification beacons. This will help to facilitate operation in the airfields. For instance, the departure of the helicopters and giving directions to the planes.

Different categories of airfields depend on the type of ownership. They range from prior permission required normally know as private to General aviation. Private airfields are owned by individual firms and are funded by their owners themselves You must seek permission first before landing on them. In General aviation, they are mostly owned and funded by the public sector.




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