Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Confusion; Distraction
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Other / Unknown; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Equipment Issue; No Specific Anomaly Occurred Unwanted Situation
General None Reported / Taken
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Airport; Procedure
The night flights into PTKK should be halted as soon as possible due to dangerous situation. PAPIs on both ends of the runway are inoperative according to the NOTAMs; and have been for months. The runway is located in an area with very little illumination.  According to Naval aviators very similar to landing on a carrier at night. There is no electronic means of glidepath guidance using the RNAV (GPS) Runway 4 past HIMAX. There has been a fatal accident due to lack of glide slope information approximately 3 years ago. With the lack of glide slope; and PAPIs I believe this is the highest risk airport in the system during night operations and should be stopped as soon as possible.
Pilot reported the approach lacks glidepath guidance and currently the PAPI system is NOTAM'd out of service until August.