Commercial fixed wing first officer reported the sba ALS being extremely bright and disorienting whi...

Attributes
ACN	1679912
Time
Date	201908
Place
Locale Reference	SBA.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 119 Flight Crew Total 3180 Flight Crew Type 3180
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Narrative:

Night visual conditions in sba landing runway 7. The approach light system is extremely bright and disorienting to the point that it washes out any visual reference to the rest of the runway. Tower was unable to dim the lights; saying they could only dim the runway lights; which made it worse. Also makes it challenging to have an accurate and soft landing to a short runway.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Commercial Fixed Wing First Officer reported the SBA ALS being extremely bright and disorienting while landing.

Narrative: Night visual conditions in SBA landing Runway 7. The approach light system is extremely bright and disorienting to the point that it washes out any visual reference to the rest of the runway. Tower was unable to dim the lights; saying they could only dim the runway lights; which made it worse. Also makes it challenging to have an accurate and soft landing to a short runway.

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Commercial fixed wing first officer reported the sba ALS being extremely bright and disorienting while landing.