@ZeeMan90:
Are there more interactive clues? 😄 Or to put it the other way around: Am I misunderstanding things due to lack of intellectual capabilities? 😄
I mean I try all the things you say (and the manual of course) but still total white or red PAPI, AOA far from 13° with nice and smooth landings but I want to do it by the book as if I would land the real thing.
https://abload.de/thumb/2017-04-06_160641pcpen.png
All this leads to:
https://abload.de/thumb/2017-04-06_160700tzpxc.png
Your FPM is right where it should be for the PAPIs in that picture. Those 2 big boxes next to the PAPIs are called Aiming Points, or fixed distance markers. Precision, or instrument, approaches use them as, wait for it…aiming points. I’m not sure if the runway in-game is scaled correctly, but they are typically right at 1000’ from the start of the touchdown zone, which is where the PAPIs should be bringing you in. So if you are following the PAPIs then you’re aiming for the right spot–hence 2R/2W. When you slow to touchdown speed and flare, it will put you down right in the sweet spot at the beginning of the ‘touchdown’ zone, which is depicted on this runway by the first set of bars after the threshold, where your arrow is pointing. That is the START of the touchdown zone–not the entirety of it, it’s a pilot pride thing to put the rubber on brick one, but certainly not a requirement. Each successive set of bars after the Aiming Points should be at 500ft intervals. The reduction in number of bars is a coding system to let the pilot know how far down the runway they are. Again, it’s important to remember that this is designed specifically for use in Precision Approaches, not necessarily visual approaches (Although it does make a nice general cue for visually acquiring the runway and aligning yourself), and the entire visual cue system and spacing is really designed more for much larger and heavier aircraft which have tighter decision windows. It’s much easier to stop a fighter that floats a long landing past the touchdown zone than a fully loaded 747. Aside from being a little too fast, you are more or less “doing it by the book” as you described earlier, despite the PAPIs being all red or all white–at least for a visual approach.