answered PAJN RWY light and PAPI

[vonmar]

Just purchased PAJN (teting with P3Dv4 at the moment).

I noticed no PAPI lights on approach (screenshot of what I think are PAPI's).

Also, the runway lights are very large and really bright.

 

I may have a P3Dv4 setting wrong in P3Dv4?

 

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

 

I think you would be able to see the VASI lights as you approach but

not after you are on the runway, but depending on the angle.

I'm not sure how you would shrink the runway lights.

 

 

[vonmar]

Nick,

Thanks for the reply.

I did several approaches since purchasing PAJN .. never have seen the PAPI's

I can just barely see the red papi in your screenshot.

This is a real problem at Orbx PAJN.

 

I just purchased PAHO ... here is a screenshot taken just now ... no problem seeing PAPI on approach or on the ground:

And, the white runway lights look good also.

 

I now added a screenshot of P3Dv4 default LPMA (Orbx global).

Edit: added Orbx PAJN (FSX) screenshot.

 

[Matt McGee]

On 12/29/2017 at 5:00 AM, vonmar said:

This is a real problem at Orbx PAJN.

I concur. 

The PAPI lights at PAJN are unacceptable in P3D and have been for years.  (A quick search nets posts as far back as April 2016)

They work in FSX, but they don't in P3Dv3 and still don't in P3Dv4.

 

The virtually imperceptible red dots in Nick's screen shot are not acceptable lights.  You can barely see them from the runway.

They are too dim to see on final approach and I cannot even tell if they change color (between red and white).

I took a series of screen shots on final and short final, but you really can't make out the PAPI anyway, which just illustrates the point that they don't work properly.

[Ed Correia]

Drop this into the ORBX\FTX_NA\FTX_AA_PAJN\Scenery folder PAJN_ADEP2_TRB.bgl

 

Simple ADE fix but the lights aren't 100% aligned with the model.

 

 

[Matt McGee]

12 minutes ago, Ed Correia said:

Simple ADE fix but the lights aren't 100% aligned with the model.

Thank you Ed.

The PAPI are at least visible and function with this fix.

 

At night you don't even notice the lights aren't aligned until you are very close to them.

In daylight, you can see that they aren't perfectly aligned with the 3D boxes when you are on short final.  But farther out they look fine and you can actually see what color they are.