To achieve this, you "only" need to
- coordinate your 2 arms and 2 legs
- use your central and peripheral vision to judge distance, height and angle
- use your ear to listen to airspeed changes
- use your inner ear to keep wings level
- feel side-slipping in your stomach
- feel engine RPM via the seat of pants
- use your skin to feel control surface stiffness and loseness (as speed increases or decays)
- put all this information into your brain to predict what is the next best control move on the yoke, stick, pedals, throttle or spoilers
- make the control inputs you feel necessary
- check that it didn't utterly screw up the the approach or landing
- do the above cycle again...
Quite like that.
Would you mind if I e mailed it to a lady who I take flying on occasion to whom the phrase 'Shut the f*** up when I'm landing' has no apparent effect? (I couch it in a more gentlemanly manner but that's what I really mean...)