fael97, not sure what you mean. If you are 'deck spotting' - not looking at the mirror (IFLOLS), line up and airspeed only - then the glideslope to a carrier looks very steep; while the tendency to touch down early (forgetting the 'hook tip to pilot eye' vertical distance) means you are likely to hit the ramp (if you are deckspotting). Whatever the glideslope setting; it becomes irrelevant if you are flying 'meatball, lineup and airspeed (Optimum Angle of Attack).
A carrier pilot is not looking out the front as he might do at an airfield without an IFLOLS (mirror) and as a video viewer you likely will not able to see the 'meatball, lineup and airspeed' (because often these details are lost or you only see a view out the front through the glass). Don't be mistaken. A carrier pilot is not smooth - although it may look smooth if you do not have access to the 'meatball lineup and airspeed' indications - which is usually the case. I think you would be surprised at how 'unsmooth but accurate' carrier pilot's approaches are in fact. Trying to be smooth - at the expense of accuracy - is a bad technique.
For sure be as smooth as your primarily accurate flying will allow but above all be accurate and anticipate where the meatball is going so that an immediate correction is made to get back to the parameters. There is often nothing smooth about that way of flying at all. There are a lot of threads on this forum about flying the glideslope - worth checking them out.
Perhaps remembering also that once the meatball can be seen or earlier the pilot makes 'large' corrections to get to the correct parameters but as he gets closer to arrest he makes 'less large' corrections whilst also anticipating any corrections and making corrections to the first correction then a correction to the second correction to the first correction - if you follow - in a decreasing way, all the way to touchdown. All the while maintaining 'meatball, lineup and airspeed (Opt AoA). It requires practice to perfect. Practice on the 'fsxnp' FCLP missions - at dusk and then night time mission 5 if you can manage it. This practice will make your carrier approaches that much easier and better.
One thing about FSX carrier approaches that is unreal is that videos can be made from the cockpit where others can see these indications (if video made at high quality) - not usually possible in real life - the LSO sees all though.
