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I assume the point of this question is “Why don’t they paint runways another color so pilots don’t accidentally wander onto the runway and cause accidents?”
The main problem is that runways get extremely beat up from all the traffic of heavy planes with black marking tires rolling over them.
They’d have repaint the runway constantly and if the runway appeared black (from tires or darkness) it would actually serve to *fool* the pilots into thinking it wasn’t the runway.
Additionally, runways actually have lights already to indicate where the runway is and pilots miss those too. And lights don’t have the wear problem that painting the runway would have.
And some incursions are caused by pilots thinking they have clearance to takeoff even when they don’t. So not all runway incursions are caused by “where is the runway?” Some are cause by “Oops I thought I was supposed to be here.”
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