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John wrote about:
> tower near Shepherd
> Texas (south of Lake Livingston,
> north of town of Cleveland) on Houston
> Sectional. Tower is marked as 1177 feet;
> fly-by is closer to 2177 feet.
> AOPA helped to finally get an answer from
> FAA: prior owner got permission
> to add 1000 feet, then sold tower before
> extension was completed, new owner
> neglected to notify FAA. Tower is TALL
> -- poorly lighted, poorly painted, not
> real obvious in (frequent) Texas haze/weather.
> It's just waiting to snag some poor fellow who's
> conscientiously reading his sectional.
John,
As you've researched this, isn't there a federal law governing tower
painting and
lighting?
As I understood it, by federal law, any tower over 100 feet must have
either
strobe lighting
or
flashing lights and 100 ft. segments painted alternate white and red.
Isn't this tower in violation of the lighting law?
Ed Burkhead
John Trowbridge wrote:
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>
> Sorry -- I should have included info on FAA's efforts to update
> the Houston Sectional (tower in question is 40 miles NE of
> Houston, going up US Hiway 59). Thanks to AOPA, who finally
> "got" to the right person, FAA says it could take 2 printing cycles
> to get the information corrected, after they confirm it. So, about
> a year after I first discovered the problem (and, I assume, so did
> thousands of other pilots??) and tried to report it, it might show
> up on the sectional. If ANYONE has other towers to report
> ANYWHERE, send your info direct to AOPA -- they're more than
> willing to help push this along to the right folks and apply constant
> pressure.
> John Trowbridge/Houston
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