New Chitose Airport

Could someone explain me why this airport runways are orange !

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Maybe for better visibility?

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When it snows, you can see the markings better. It always snows a lot in Hokkaido in the winter.

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Probably they use LED lights to melt the snow as well! Haha!

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It’s the same in Oslo

LED won’t give off heat. Or way less than normal halogen,xenon, etc

Hahaha that’s exactly my point lol

I remember some news saying that the snow doesn’t melt due to Japan using LED for its lights everywhere

So it’s 100% sarcasm :P

Since I’m editing airports in Japan, I’ve seen this with many airports (New Chitose is my next project) and I believe @Narroc_Wim’s answer is legitimate enough :)

Will you have the yellow markings on the runway?

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The software we use has no such option :/

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If I’m not wrong there is one @JFKPlaneSpotter

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There is? Let me check :)

I’ll tell you on slack

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