Searching the Internet yielded a diagram explaining the actual light flash timings for an Airbus, which seems like a fair starting point.
(Source: UTC Aerospace Systems)
Programming the Arduino to emulate the timings behind this behaviour required a simple state machine.
The way I've coded it here isn't going to be very power-efficient though, since it's spinning around the loop all the time. It would be better to add some sleep logic and make it interrupt driven. Maybe later.
const int pinWingL = 2;
const int pinWingR = 3;
const int pinTail = 4;
const int pinBeacon = LED_BUILTIN;
// Start time of state machine
unsigned long startTime = 0;
// Current state
int state = 0;
void setup() {
// set the digital pins as output:
pinMode(pinWingL, OUTPUT);
pinMode(pinWingR, OUTPUT);
pinMode(pinTail, OUTPUT);
pinMode(pinBeacon, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
unsigned long currentTime = millis();
long deltaTime = currentTime - startTime;
switch (state) {
case (0):
default:
startTime = currentTime;
setBeacon(LOW);
setWing(HIGH);
setTail(HIGH);
state = 1;
break;
case (1):
if (deltaTime > 50) {
setWing(LOW);
state = 2;
}
break;
case (2):
if (deltaTime > 100) {
setWing(HIGH);
setTail(LOW);
state = 3;
}
break;
case (3):
if (deltaTime > 150) {
setWing(LOW);
state = 4;
}
break;
case (4):
if (deltaTime > 500) {
setBeacon(HIGH);
state = 5;
}
break;
case (5):
if (deltaTime > 600) {
setBeacon(LOW);
state = 6;
}
break;
case (6):
if (deltaTime > 999) {
startTime = currentTime;
state = 0;
}
break;
}
}
void setWing(int state) {
digitalWrite(pinWingL, state);
digitalWrite(pinWingR, state);
}
void setTail(int state) {
digitalWrite(pinTail, state);
}
void setBeacon(int state) {
digitalWrite(pinBeacon, state);
}