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  2. Taxiway - Wikipedia

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    Taxiway centerlines are enhanced for 150 feet (46 m) before a runway holding position marking. The enhanced taxiway centerline is standard [4] at all FAR Part 139 certified airports in the US. Taxiway Edge Markings Used to define the edge of the taxiway when the edge does not correspond with the edge of the pavement.

  3. Runway - Wikipedia

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    It starts with green light at about the runway centerline to the position of first centerline light beyond the Hold-Short markings on the taxiway. Taxiway centerline lead-on lights – installed the same way as taxiway centerline lead-off Lights, but directing airplane traffic in the opposite direction.

  4. Holding (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    A standard holding pattern. Shown are the entry (green), the holding fix (red) and the holding pattern itself (blue) In aviation, holding (or flying a hold) is a maneuver designed to delay an aircraft already in flight while keeping it within a specified airspace; i.e. "going in circles."

  5. Displaced threshold - Wikipedia

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    Runway 29L at Indira Gandhi International Airport, in Delhi, India, has a displaced threshold of 1,460 m (4,790 ft) from the physical beginning of the pavement. [4] This produces a 1.5 km portion of runway that cannot be used for landing in this direction. This, in turn decreases the available landing length on runway 29L to 2,970 m (9,744 ft).

  6. Airfield traffic pattern - Wikipedia

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    Certainly a plane giving a position report of "mid-downwind" can be visually located easily.) Base leg. A short descending flight path at right angles to the approach end extended centerline of the landing runway. Final approach. A descending flight path in the direction of landing along the extended runway centerline from the base leg to the ...

  7. Land and hold short operations - Wikipedia

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    Land and Hold Short Operations (LAHSO, pronounced "La-So") is an air traffic control procedure for aircraft landing and holding short of an intersecting runway or point on a runway, to balance airport capacity and system efficiency with safety.

  8. Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Runway 16/34 has centerline, threshold markings, aiming points, and runway designation markings. Taxiways have hold short markings before runway intersections and centerlines. The airport's aprons have centerlines to control traffic and designated tie down areas. A segmented circle is located to the west of the runway, mid-field, for visual ...

  9. Marker beacon - Wikipedia

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    Similar to the outer and middle markers, a inner marker located at the beginning (threshold) of the runway on some ILS approach systems (usually Category II and III) having decision heights of less than 200 feet (60 m) AGL. Triggers a flashing white light on the same marker beacon receiver used for the outer and middle markers; also a series of ...