Airplane runways across the world are carefully constructed to ensure all safety standards are met. Landing at night is indeed an arduous task as it involves a perfect coordination of all the landing aspects in artificial light. Artificial light makes the landing possible with lighting systems being incorporated in to landing strips across the planet. While most top notch airports boast of international quality in this regard, few private landing strips are equipped with landing lights to enable safe landing at nights.
Landing Eyes are a unique lighting system for private airstrips across the world. These small and highly cost-effective lights employ solar power, batteries and a series of reflective strips to safely illuminate landing strips for night time landings. They utilize solar energy to get charged up during the day time & light up the landing strip at night. Developed by an engineer and amateur pilot from Durban, Landing Eyes helps a continent immensely, where only 10% of private and public airstrips are equipped with electrical landing lights.
It converts the energy of the sun & hence is eco-friendly. It saves immense use of power & uses the most modern available technology such as portable, durable threshold and end lights which have very low power requirements and can even be powered off of a car cigarette lighter. The reflectors, which are small high-tech plastic flags, can be seen from up to 3km away using the light given off by aircraft landing lights, and the threshold and end lights alone are visible from up to 5km away.
The invention is truly a boon to private airline industry & helps the airline business make an investment towards a clean future. It is a perfect substitute for landing strips where electricity is not available always.
