Rotating Beacon News Today

CLEARWATER — The city will not be able to accelerate the planned installation of a rotating beacon to improve visibility for night landings at Clearwater Airpark, the airpark’s advisory board was told Thursday. The update came during an emergency meeting held in response to a Feb. 1 incident in which a pilot trying to land could not find the airpark, even though the runway lights were on, ...

Control that aircraft, there is something called pilot engine dead reckoning and the pilot knows his last known position, he can use his watch and estimate his speed and then they can know when they are going to reach the malaysian peninsula or some of those islands which would be a little more difficult to get to. but in those instances, the pilot would see ground lights. i understand it was a clear night. and they would then navigate to a major metropolitan center and circle about it as they a...