My instructor used a great technique with me. He put £50 (or equivalent) in his pocket and told me that if I crossed the threshold in good shape he would tell me. Once that happened, with power at 'idle', approx 10 feet above the ground, I would be able to keep the £50 if I could stay off the ground and crash into the field at the end of the runway. Try as I might, I could not do it, but I really got the hang of that 'straight and level' stuff. It's just that I did it in the 'wrong place', sank really slowly and eventually landed.
Thankfully it wasn't a £50 bet, or I would have been skint after a couple of circuits!
