flare path

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   an airstrip outline with lights to guide an airplane pilot in landing

   Broaderairstrip

Questions about flare path

What does flare path mean?

flare path means "an airstrip outline with lights to guide an airplane pilot in landing".

Is flare path a common word?

flare path is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.