So what actually is the deal with ILSes in MSFS?

[BigCow74]

I think it’s an underlying sim/airport autogen issue, and there’s a lot of good discussion in this thread, if you haven’ t seen it before:

PAPI and VASI lights have wrong placement, causing long landings, or are missing

I’ve been wondering why I’m always seeing four red lights on short final, and I’ve figured it out. When they exist in MSFS, the visual glide slope indicators (VGSI) such as PAPI and VASI are almost always placed too far down the runway. They are also often missing or incorrectly configured (2 box vs 4 box, right side vs left side). Focusing on placement down the runway, the MSFS standard of PAPI placement 1000’ from the threshold causes an improperly high glidepath and a long landing on shorter…