Just been browsing through this thread, all this information is good solid stuff, not to sure about the looking out to the side bit, but all in all, good information. Bits you really need to take notice of are: a good approach leads to a good landing. Look down the runway. You may try lifting your line of vision in three stages over about 300 mt or so at a time, this will make the transition from the threshold to the other end easer. Speed! Speed! Speed! To often students/cadets (whatever) suffer learning difficulties due to trying to land to fast. The plane will not land until has reached the correct speed. If the aircraft is 5 or 10 kts to fast at the threshold, (Vref +10) the plane will float along until the speed decays to the correct speed and then sink on. This causes anxiety and an urge for the pilot to push the plane onto the runway, hence the bounce and nose wheel problems (as discussed in another thread). The speed is all to do with the best L : D. If you are to fast, (above the best L : D) the plane will find it easer to fly as the speed decays, meaning that it doesn't want to settle on. Check the pilots operating handbook speed for a normal landing in any aircraft you fly, it's a good place to start. As for the crosswind landings, that's another story, and should be treated as such!
Have FUN!
GC
[This message has been edited by GrandpaCharles (edited 18 May 1999).]