Hi acdii
It looks like you are having a great time in our hobby. It took me a long time to learn why I was crashing during the landing attempt. Here is what I learned and decided to follow: After you study that I would appreciated your comments.
After I realizedI was having many crashes due to stalling during the landing, I did some heavystudying of what was happening. I was mainly crashing when I was landing at anangle to the left/right of the runway due to a cross wind. Since normal depthperception is only about 17 feet, and I always landed further than 17 feetaway, I suddenly realized that when I landed at an angle I did not know wherethe plane was in height, relative to the runway, since I did not know how faraway it was. In addition, when I land at an angle, I completely lose my senseof "rate of decent" (I don't know how fast/slow I am approaching theground). Furthermore, with the plane coming in at an angle, I completely losemy sense of ground speed of the plane. I addition, coming in at anglecompletely destroys my sense of "angle of flare" because of thegeometry of what I am seeing. I searched for a solution and this is what I donow: I only land right-to-left or left-to-right. If the crosswind is terrible Iwill point the nose a little into the wind. On every landing, I do my best totouch down directly in front of me as I am facing directly across the runway(at a right angle to the runway length). By landing in front of me, I have abetter and constant view of the plane attitude, ground speed, rate of decent,and flare angle. For those that wish to point out that the plane cares nothingabout ground speed, only air speed, I point out that we fly our planes withoutthe instrumentation to know air speed, and instead substitute other input toarrive at a safe landing.