Virtual PAPI

A PAPI for every runway

Free · Designed for iPad

Pilots love runways with visual descent guidance, such as PAPI or VASI, but unfortunately they don't exist everywhere. This app provides an adjustable visual descent guidance for every runway on the planet. The pilot can select an airport, a runway, adjust the desired descent angle and the aiming point, then Virtual PAPI will create a glide slope indicator style. The glide slope will provide accurate vertical guidance to the aiming point from any direction, 360 degrees, providing a valuable guidance for any type of approach, like base entries, short approaches, straight-ins, etc. The app comes with over 30 thousand runways in its offline database, and more will be added as they are discovered. The app works completely offline and never tries to use the internet. All it needs is access to your location. Virtual PAPI is and free and open source, with all the code available on GitHub.

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Glide Slope configure smoothing, to avoid instant changes close to the runway. Improved tracking of ground speed and heading across all location sources. When a destination runway is selected, the user can see the aiming point on a map in settings (internet required). Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 1.3

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    Information

    • Provider
      • Marlon Dutra
    • Size
      • 4.5 MB
    • Category
      • Utilities
    • Compatibility
      Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
      • iPhone
        Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
      • iPad
        Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.
      • Mac
        Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Languages
      • English
    • Age Rating
      4+
    • Copyright
      • © 2025 Marlon Dutra
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