Perhaps a bit too much focus on ILS. Please don't forget the PAPIs. Thanks to the PAPIs, this aircraft made it to the runway. It certainly appears as though one of the crew spotted the red lights and made an adjustment. If the PAPIs hadn't been turned on for this approach I wonder how much worse it would have been. Can anyone with more knowledge about SFO than myself, explain why the PAPIs have been routinely turned off for the past several weeks?
I can understand the reasoning behind ILS G/S being turned off but I haven't the foggiest why it has been necessary to switch off the PAPIs to boot..