AIMS-AERO

The only TRUE LED
High Intensity RGL on the Market

RUNWAY INCURSIONS: A MAJOR CONCERN

Runway Incursions, defined as “the unintended presence of an aircraft, vehicle, or person on the runway or runway strip”, has been identified as one of the major risk-factors in the aviation transport system. Among others, ICAO, FAA, and Eurocontrol are actively working at reducing this world-wide problem whose number of occurrences may well increase with the traffic.
Although the vast majority of the cases are reported as "minor", (i.e. loss of required separation with an aircraft taking off or landing but with little chance of collision), the number of Runway Incursions is appalling and the FAA Office of Runway Safety has reported an average of 6 incursions per one million operations. Sadly, there have also been a number of tragic accidents in the recent years with significant loss of lives.
One of the installations required for prevention of runway incursions is the Runway Guard Lights (RGL), also referred to as "Wig-Wag". These should under certain conditions be installed on every taxiway connected to the runway as the last resort to remind a flight crew that they must have a clearance to continue before entering an active runway.

Technical Characteristics

• Power Consumption: 36 Watt only
• Expected life of LED over 50.000 h
• Model 6.6A: powered by series lighting circuit through power convertor
• Model 120/230VAC: powered from mains AC parallel lighting circuit; equipped with photocell to control lamp intensity. A photocell energizes lamps to full intensity during high light levels and then reduces full intensity to 30% during low ambient light conditions
• Natural Air Cooling
• Mounting on standard 2 inch O.D. Breakable coupling
• Flash Rate: Alternating flashes, 45-50 per minute
• Main Beam Coverage- +/- 8º both vertical and horizontal
• Adjustable Light Beam: 0°, 5°, 10°, 15° vertically through adjustable slip fitter.
• Tether preventing the RGL from being blown in case of impact
• Low profile to reduce impact of jet blast
• Environmental Operating Conditions Temperature: -20°C to +45ºC
• Wind: Withstands up to 480 km/h
• Humidity: 0 to 100%