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On 3/21/07, Peter Ogilvie <> wrote:
> Give it up, it's an FAA, International Airline regulation that boats with masts over a certain height have to display a red light. Enough already!!
>
Whilst it may well be a requirement mandated by a competent authority,
neither the FAA nor the airlines have any jurisdiction outside of the
US for the former and their own offices for the latter.
The ICAO annexe 14 (which defines obstacles to aviation that should be
lit) appears to state that they are to be placed on FIXED obstacles
within 3000m of the runway.
If anyone has a definitive source for a requirement for red lights on
masts I'd like to see it.
