Inconsistency between ILS glideslope and PAPI lights

That wouldn’t be accurate in many, many cases. You can pull a huge number of ILS approach charts that specifically identify that the visual approach indicator (PAPI/VASI) paths do not match the ILS approach path, even if both use the same descent angle. There are several reasons for this, as outlined by numerous people throughout this forum, including higher terrain/obstacle clearance requirements for ILS approaches than for visual approaches.
Approaches where the ILS and visual approaches are coincident should be corrected to match up. Approaches where they’re not coincident should not be incorrectly modeled just to make them match.
Regards

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