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9). How can a military airport be identified at night?

a). White flashing lights with steady green at the same location.
b). Dual peaked (two quick) white flashes between green flashes.
c). Alternate white and green light flashes.
The answer is:
b). Dual peaked (two quick) white flashes between green flashes.

Night flying is usually a spectacular experience. The atmosphere usually calms down after the turbulence-generating heating of the day and, in many ways, navigation is actually easier than during the day: lighted towers are more readily id'd and towns can be seen and identified from much further away. Rotating beacons can also be seen from much further away, depending on the surroundings. I was conducting a night flight from Wilmington, NC (KILM) to Louisburg, NC (KLHZ) a while ago and, somewhere around Wilson, NC (app. 34 miles from KLHZ), I was able to abandon VOR navigation (this was before the advent of GPS) and bee-line straight to the rotating beacon I could see up ahead, the beacon at the only place it could be, my destination. There's no way I could have visually id'd my destination from 34 miles out during the day.

Military airports can be differentiated from civilian airports at night by observing the two white flashes between green flashes of the beacon. Rotating beacons at civilian airports use alternate white and green flashes.

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