During the final approach for landing, pilots must make a decision to complete the landing or “execute a missed approach.” The identification of the threshold is a major factor in pilot decisions to land or not to land. For this reason, the region near the threshold is given special lighting consideration. The threshold is identified at large airports by a complete line of green lights extending across the entire width of the runway, as shown earlier in Fig. 8-5, and at small airports by four green lights on each side of the threshold. The lights on either side of the runway threshold may be elevated. Threshold lights in the direction of landing are green but in the opposite direction these lights are red to indicate the end of the runway.