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In my youth I once worked for a small local airport near where I grew up. I did a lot of small stuff like mowing lawn between runways and cleaning.

One day it was my job to switch out burned out light bulbs from the approach light installations. It was before anyone was risk averse so I only had a ladder to climb up, keep as still as possible while wrangling the cases open, getting the old bulb out and installing the new one.

The most terrifying thing was bursts of wind when the whole construction, me included started to wobble.

I had quite a bit of an adrenaline rush this day.

Good times, but now I feel a bit old.

Edit: German local online newspaper article containing a photo of the approach lighting [0].

IATA designation: HOQ

[0]: https://www.frankenpost.de/inhalt.hof-stadtrat-beraet-ueber-...

Reading about it I learned that it is nowadays also used as a test area for BMW's autonomous driving. And nearly not used for regular flight activities.