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About Virtual PAPI

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.

What’s new

Version 1.5 · Updated September 28, 2026

Many bug fixes Altitude integrity checks Visual warning when vertical accuracy is questionable New internal GPS debug view Stricter database integrity checks Improved GDL90 support

App privacy

The developer, Marlon Dutra, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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