Part of the reason I've still not gone solo is I struggle with the flare (one thing FSX will not help with, because it doesn't replicate the perspective and depth of vision well enough),
I dunno, personally, I've found FSX .. and Xplane ... and Falcon4 ... and other simulators to be excellent for practicing / learning the flare.
Maybe you need an LCD projector or 60" flatscreen ?
(I wish I had either).
You might want to take a look at this thread re: landings / flaring in particular
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=291570 ... and I'm sure a search on "landings" will find many other threads here.
As for "realistic VFR scenery" for MSFS, have you played with Google Earth much ? ... and have you seen that they've recently put in a basic flight simulator
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...38210&from=rss (instruments .. responds to joystick ...etc).
I used MSFS to prepare for my X-ctry's when getting my PPL, and even without any extra scenery add-ons it was a great help as the roads and towns were fairly accurate. When I flew the real thing a few days later it was like "deja vu "
Mike