Red Over White, Your'e All Right Traditional Cache
Red Over White, Your'e All Right
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An easy cache just to give you a reason to come out and watch planes takeoff and land.
This is a micro located at the end of a road by Spirit of St.Louis Airport. Its a perfect spot to park and watch pilots use all their training and skills to sucessfully pull off takeoffs and landings.
"Red Over White, Your'e All Right" is a mnemonic for pilots using Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI) to make smooth landings.
The Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI) is a system of lights on the side of an airport runway threshold that provides visual descent guidance information during the approach to a runway. These lights may be visible from up to eight kilometers (five miles) during the day and up to 32 kilometers (20 miles) or more at night.
Basic visual approach slope indicators consist of one set of lights set up some seven meters (twenty feet) from the start of the runway. Each light is designed so that the light appears as either white or red, depending on the angle at which the lights are viewed. When the pilot is approaching the lights at the proper angle, meaning the pilot is on the glide slope, the first set of lights appears white and the second set appears red. When both sets appear white, the pilot is flying too high, and when both appear red he or she is flying too low. This is the most common type of visual approach slope indicator system.
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