Helipad = Heliport the last time I checked. In any case, I was not
trying to cite all the cases why you may need to light a tower. I was
pointing out that lighting is usually a legit alternative to painting.
If you're low and slow below 200', you had better be near an airport or
heliport or you're most likely in violation of FAA rules anyway. ;->
Joe M.
Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> mch wrote:
>
> >
> >If you have daytime strobes, that's the reason the paint isn't required.
> >You have to have the tower painted (correctly) OR use daytime strobes.
> >At night, you have to light it using red or night strobes. This applies
> >to any tower over 200' tall or close enough to an airport or heliport to
> >be a hazard.
> >
> >
> Or a Federal Airway that goes over the top of your mountain. Or
> instrument flight approaches. Or being in the buffer zone of an
> instrument missed approach corridor. Or near a published helipad. Or
> on an unpublished (to the public) military training route -- and those
> are often times in places one wouldn't expect them to be.
>
> In other words, there are other things that trigger the need for
> lighting/painting other than just proximity to an airport. I get
> nervous when I see people try to teach new tower owners with "rules of
> thumb" like the "near the airport" rule, so I mention it. (Only 'cause
> I'm a pilot and when you're low and slow is no time to spot a new tower
> that suddenly sprung up.)
>
> The only way to know for sure is to apply to the FAA and let the folks
> in Oklahoma City figure it out.
>
> (Even temporary structures like cranes used for construction are
> typically flagged and lighted when they're close enough to an airport,
> and there's rules for them too. And it gives one a warm-fuzzy to hear
> "Note: Cranes and construction equipment 200 AGL south and west of the
> airport." in the ATIS recording and in the NOTAMS when you talk to a
> Flight Service Station briefer.)
>
> Nate WY0X
>
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