Daft question about landing on runways

[BuzzU]

Why bother? Just slam the Hornet down and it's happy. Didn't you see it smiling?

[Joch1955]

As long as you have the correct AOA and a 2.5-3 degree glide slope, it will land very gently and no need to flare. One mistake players often seem to make is coming in too steeply at 5+ degree which can be problematic. If you find your glide slope is too steep on final approach, it is often easy to fix without aborting your approach.  The key to an easy landing, whether on land or a CV, is following the correct procedure.

Also when I land at an airbase, I will open my speedbrake as soon as I touchdown, it really helps to stop the plane quickly.

[Ignition]

I've been flying the hornet lately and noticed when landing on land runways  it behaves really weird just before touch down. I've been flying the F-16C since 2020 until 2023 exclusively and its a really cool aircraft to land, you just add a very fast but also very short acceleration just before touching the runway and you smooth the landing very well. But when landing the F-18C it feels "wrong", like if the aircraft didn't have any or very tiny ground effect and I need to maintain the throttles beyond idle all the time because the aircraft just sinks to the ground otherwise. I can land it very soft like the F-16C but doesn't "feel right" to me, or natural.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, I'm using full flap.