answered Taxiway Lighting at Sumburgh

[iandavid]

Just bought Sumburgh Airport but there is no taxiway lighting at night on 09/27?

 

Paul Gardner

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

welcome to the forums.

There don't seem to be any taxiways as such, do you mean that the runway has no lighting?

[John Burgess]

Hi there,

23 hours ago, iandavid said:

there is no taxiway lighting at night on 09/27?

 

Hi there,

 

Just had a chance to look at this.

 

According to the latest airport information I have (dated April 2020) there is very little taxiway lighting at Sumburgh.

 

Here's the relevant section.

 

Runway light(s):
Blue edge lights on Runway 15/33 from Hold Kilo to the edge of Runway 09/27.
Taxiway light(s):
Holding points designated by retro-reflective illuminated signs and red
stop lights (except Holds F, W and Z which is unlit).

 

We might have it slightly wrong in that the Blue edge lights only go from hold K to rwy 15/33 at which point we have the runway edge lights of 15/33 taking you to the edge of 09/27 rather than more blue edge lights.

Here's what I see:

 

We possibly actually have some lights which shouldn't be there (blue edge lights from hold C onto rwy 15/33 and from hold J onto rwy 15/33 appear in the scenery but not in the actual airport information).

 

The runways 09\27 and 15\33 have edge lights but no centreline lights - again consistent with the airport information.

 

In the top screenshot is the illuminated sign marking the hold short, I suspect we might be missing the red stop lights mentioned.

 

Hope somewhere in all this is an answer to your original question!

 

I guess landing at the airport after dark is only advisable in an aircraft with good lights of it's own.

 

Opening hours are listed as:

Mon-Fri 0730-2015 (0630-1915); Sat 0730-1430 (0630-1330); Sun 1045-2000
(0945-1900).

I know that so far North, in Winter, a lot of night would be included in those hours. It's bad enough where I live in the middle of Scotland!

 

All the best,

 

John

 

 

 

 

[iandavid]

Hi John

 

Thanks for that. Just wanted to be sure that it wasn't an issue with my scenery. You'd think that being an oil terminal it would be 24hr.

[John Burgess]

Hi Paul,

 

The actual terminal is further North (Sullom Voe) but I think Sumburgh is the main airport for Shetland.

 

It's one of the bits of Scotland I've yet to visit. Furthest I've got North was cycling around Orkney with my wife a few years ago.

 

On the to do list!

 

All the best,

 

John