{"id":10662,"date":"2025-05-19T07:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:51:40","slug":"aircraft-exterior-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/infografia\/luces-exteriores-de-los-aviones\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft exterior lights: functions and types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On more than one occasion, we have seen aircraft, especially at night, make themselves visible with a miscellany of lights, some of them fixed and some of them flashing. The resulting eye-catching ensemble may look like an exercise in randomness, but&nbsp;<strong>each of these lights has a mission<\/strong>&nbsp;and a concrete reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The importance of aircraft exterior lighting lies in the fact that it has a dual function:&nbsp;<strong>see and be seen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The type of light, its location and the procedures for its use may vary depending on the type of aircraft and the company operating it. In addition, not all are mandatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this&nbsp;<strong>infographics<\/strong>&nbsp;we take a look at the most common exterior lights on commercial aircraft, explaining the&nbsp;<strong>location and mission of each of them<\/strong>. Surely, the next time a plane flies over your head or you visit an airport, you will know the meaning of each of these lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Luces-exteriores-de-los-aviones.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Luces exteriores de los aviones.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-44382f45-9938-495a-83cd-8cea2c058c1a\" href=\"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Luces-exteriores-de-los-aviones.pdf\">Aircraft exterior lights<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Luces-exteriores-de-los-aviones.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-44382f45-9938-495a-83cd-8cea2c058c1a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source: Own elaboration.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The contents of this document are the intellectual property of AERTEC Solutions. Any copying or distribution is permitted, provided that the document is reproduced in its entirety and that the AERTEC Solutions logo is preserved at all times.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En m\u00e1s de una ocasi\u00f3n hemos visto que los aviones, especialmente de noche, se hacen ver con una&nbsp;miscel\u00e1nea de luces, algunas de ellas fijas y otras parpadeantes. El llamativo conjunto resultante puede parecer un ejercicio de azar, pero&nbsp;cada una de esas luces tiene una misi\u00f3n&nbsp;y una raz\u00f3n concreta. La importancia de las luces exteriores de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":10667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[22,140,87,50,362],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infografia","tag-aeronaves","tag-avionica","tag-infografia","tag-seguridad","tag-sistemas-de-avion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12382,"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions\/12382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aertecsolutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}