Runway 07/25 Lights Tonight

[Darren Butterworth]

Guys - Every night I look out over the airport from where we live at the end of Runway 07/25 in Rockdale (in fact my son can't sit at the dinner table without pointing out taxiing planes, let alone concentrating on his vegetables), but tonight this runway was unuaually bright.

When aircraft are landing on Runway 25 we get the strobe lights pointing towards us, but this is quite different.

Below is how it looked for every night over at least the last year that I've noticed and another couple of pics of tonight. [VERY small pics based on upload limits].

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No I didn't whip out my tripod, but you get the idea. Are they testing something? The intensity is certainly brighter.

Thoughts?

Darren