keep the ideas coming everyone... funpolice, you and the instructor hit on something.. i am usually looking directy through my feet like theyre a gunsight, and im fixated on when i can start to see grass, and i think when i do i instinctively start trying to retard the momentum with collective. and if im not doing that, im bouncing between rpm and airspeed indicator. The flares arent bad, i start them too high though.. my instructor is great, shes super paitent with everything. I just want to make these damn things work. so .. i fly a cb300, is it better to be looking out the front upper glass at the world instead of the lower one that im looking trhough... like straight ahead instead of down ... and one last thing.. im deathly afraid of a tailstrike in the flare.... how do i overcome that underlying concern for the weedwhacker back there ???? :o)