Safety
FAA Concerned about Runway Status Light Confusion
RWSLs are meant to be a last line of surface-movement defense.

Runway status light (RWSL) systems rolling out at many large U.S. airports are meeting expectations as an added safety layer, but the FAA is stepping up educational efforts to address confusion about how ATC uses the information they provide. In a nutshell: ATC does not use it.

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