According to the U.S. Navy:

http://www.efdlant.navfac.navy.mil/Lantops_15/topics/Facilities/NAVAIR_51-50
AAA-2.PDF

see Section 003-11 for VASI,  Section 003-12 for PAPI

The first (downwind) VASI bar should be 600 feet from the runway threshhold,
and subsequent bars should be 700 feet upwind.  Most civil installations use
a three-bar system, with three lights in the first and second bars, and two
lights in the last one.  VASI bars are located on both sides of the runway,
so a three-bar system has 6 bars and 16 lights.

In each bar the light nearest the runway is 50 feet from the runway edge.
The other lights(s) are spaced 16 feet apart.

I deduce from the drawing that the first bar lights point at an angle of 2.5
degrees above the horizon, and the other two point at 3 degrees.

Dave Culp


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