Beirut Tower lit up the wrong runway

[Hiob]

I was on a night instrument approach (IFR) on Beirut. ATC Tower cleared me for landing on RW 17 which I had dialed in for the approach. But those sons of biscuits lit up the wrong runway (RW 16). Unfortunately I was to close for a sideslip and landed on a rainy dark strip. Quite scary.

I could offer a Track if necessary but naturally the landing is at the end and the track is pretty long, so it probably won’t work anyway.

Edited September 9, 2024 by Hiob

[western_JPN]

Umm ...

In my testing, Beirut's all three runways' lights are all night kept ON.

Some turning OFF situation may exist I don't know ?

[Hiob]

On 9/14/2024 at 1:26 AM, western_JPN said:

Umm ...

In my testing, Beirut's all three runways' lights are all night kept ON.

Some turning OFF situation may exist I don't know ?

The approach lights?

There are some lights on all night yes, but when you call in for landing they properly light up a specific runway for approach.

Maybe I can take a screenshot later.

[western_JPN]

ah ... I misunderstood which runway was referred.

Beirut's RW 17 doesn't equip approach lights in historical.
There lighting is not bug.

For better solution by Ugra Media, reworking about Tower AI setup not to use RW 17 for landing.

 

[Hiob]

I didn‘t know about the realism of things. Maybe my expectations where wrong. It‘s just that I was specifically cleared for runway 17, which I could barely see, while 16 was lit up like a christmas tree…