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glide slope

NOUN
  1. the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing

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  • With visibility reportedly at less than half a mile at the time, a commercial aircraft typically would have been relying on an instrument landing system providing its pilots a so-called glide slope to help safely descend toward the runway. Clues Sought in Crash of Polish Plane
  • With rain still pounding on the fuselage, the tower vectored us for a left base to runway 03R. As we turned onto final, the approach lights confirmed we were right on the glide slope.
  • In the daylight it may not call the ball, it may just get a flash from the meatball, which is the lighting system that corrects its glide slope. CNN Transcript May 1, 2003
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