[Airplane] Other nifty KSC runway tools/tips for landing?

[Spraki]

Hi.

Weird title, I know, allow me to explain.

There are of course mods like ILS and PAPI. But it is always nice to have some drones placed at locations that help you guide your plane. Maybe somebody has some other nifty ideas that don't require mods.

Some might be unnecessary, but it gives you things to do for your career/sandbox purposes.

Ok, so there are different fun things we can do to help us land a plane and such. Such as:

(and correct me if I am wrong)

 

1. The classic 90'/270' runway beacon drone

A helpful target for giving you nice range finding and runway alignment.

Come to think of it, maybe one can add a few more that are well parked, to give you target markers that can act like Approach Side Row Lights?

There are mods like Kerbal Konstructs/KSC++/Airport that bring all those neato approach lights, but they are hard to see from afar. The hardToSee part kinda brings us to...

 

2. PAPI/VASI via lights

PAPI mod obviously makes more sense over building something alike this or this , as the render distance makes it too hard to see the lights until you are some 500m away.

 

3. Single/dual drone beacons/buoys

Another interesting idea is dropping off drones that act as landmarks. 

I usually make a plane that flies straight off the runway, maintaining a 90/270' course and some 500m. With the help of the runway beacon, I toss off a parachute-buoy at some 10km and 30km. Just to get some pre-alignment.

I also like dropping some two very-separate beacons that act like slalom poles/waypoint guides. 

 

3 1/2. Selfmade runway lights

Make a marked runway on such regions like polar caps for your ice base. I've yet to make a deployable drone with a long strut and lights that project runway lights. Anyways, small drones with lights pointing at the ground should it do, too.

Just be sure to set them far enough apart, unless you like crashing in such like lvl3 runway lights :D.

Anyways, these are roughly the silly things I setup for career.

Are there other cool things to place or do, that could be useful? Doubt I covered all.