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What Actually Guides a Pilot to the Runway When Visibility Drops

What Actually Guides a Pilot to the Runway When Visibility Drops

Fog rolls in fast. Visibility drops from kilometres to meters in minutes. And somewhere up there, a pilot on approach is making decisions based entirely on what they can see — or more accurately, what the lighting on the ground is telling them. This is what airport lighting aids actually do. Not decoration. Not compliance theatre. Real spatial information delivered through light, in real time,...