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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by Domenic_S on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:22AM (#14742925)
It is done pretty much like that. PDF warning, page 31: https://www.faa.gov/airports/southern/airport_safety/part139...

Taxiways are marked with blue lights.

Here's a video of a night landing on the same runway, the approach lighting is unmistakable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNMtMYUGjnQ

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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by cmurf on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:17PM (#14745968)
Yeah. At 1:18 that's clearly HIRL enabled. There's no ambiguity that's for a runway rather than taxiway. And it's not possible to visually misalign yourself with the taxiway, the whole point of HIRL is a visual aid for precision instrument landings in bad weather for Cat I and II ILS landings. On an instrument landing, it's not legal to go below decision height (200 and 100 feet respectively) unless you meet the visual reference requirement in 91.175 c3, ergo the HIRL lighting is simply unambiguous for a night VFR landing, and makes me wonder if it was even on.
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