Spectrally balanced chromatic landing approach lighting system

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1976-12-10

1981-09-22

Groody, James J.

Communications: electrical

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Having indication or alarm

244114R, B64F 120

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042912946

ABSTRACT:
A landing approach lighting system which corrects for the effects of chromatic aberration of the human eye to help prevent a pilot from making misjudgments leading to landings short of a runway threshold.
The system utilizes red warning lights to delineate the runway approach with additional blue lights juxtaposed with the red lights such that the red lights are chromatically balanced. The red/blue point light sources result in the phenomenon that the red lights appear in front of the blue lights with about one and one-half times the diameter of the blue. To a pilot observing these lights along a glide path, those red lights directly below appear to be nearer than the blue lights. For those lights farther away seen in perspective at oblique angles, the red lights appear to be in a position closer to the pilot and hence appear to be above the corresponding blue lights. This produces a very pronounced three-dimensional effect referred to as chromostereopsis which provides valuable visual cues to enable the pilot to perceive his actual position above the ground and the actual distance to the runway.

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Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 59, "Simulators and Simulation", pp. 48-54, Mar. 1975.

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