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Flying Visual Approaches? Synthetic Vision Pathways Can Help

Flying Magazine

Subscribe Now Pathways, also known as highway in the sky (HITS), guidance is provided by displaying a series of rectangles that a pilot flies through to maintain the desired course. Most of the time, jets fly long, straight-in instrument approaches, so pilots dont get much practice approaching a runway from other directions.