Tom SnowA corporate pilot complained Monday that broken equipment at Chattanooga Airport created a safety issue when he tried to land at night recently.
“Absolutely, it’s a safety issue,” said pilot Richard Genter, of Chattanooga.
He said at a meeting of the Airport Authority that he was flying from Athens, Ga., to Chattanooga Airport and asked the Federal Aviation Administration control tower to turn up the lights on the airfield as he prepared to land.
Genter said he was told at the time that the equipment designed to do so was broken and had been for two weeks.
He said that with lights from along Brainerd Road, Ringgold Road and Highway 58, the airport already sits in “a black hole” and it’s hard to pick out the airport runway lights.