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PAPI explained

51 views·Sep 29, 2026

A row of lights beside the runway that shows whether you are on the correct approach slope. Two white and two red means on slope; more red means too low, more white means too high. Pilots remember it as "red on red, you're dead; white on white, you're high".

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