Originally Posted by Globaliser
The green light/red light system at LHR is wonderful. Even from the pax cabin, you can see the system at work - you have a line of green lights in the ground to follow, and you stop at the red bars. And the ground controllers turn these on and off to confirm your clearances.
I'm sure that if all airports bothered to install this, there would be fewer runway incursion incidents.
Indeed.
The lack of the system in AAnother country has been lamented in another PPlace following ComAirs accident at Lexington. It really is a great system. If the pilot spots a line of green lights ahead they step on the gas and move ahead. If they spot a line of red lights across their path they step on the brakes.
Pretty foolproof, and helpful for those who don't know their way around the airport they are at - which is a more common problem than many would think.