I accomplished my first two solo takeoffs and landings this week so this thread is of great interest. I've been practicing on the flight simulator (RC Plane Master and FMS) and I have mostly worked on landings.

For myself, I have been cutting the throttle to both lose altitutde on final approach as well as to slow down. I don't remember how much, if any, I was providing input for up elevator but I found that it wasn't losing speed or altitude fast enough even though I was quite far out from the runway. Perhaps the other factor which I didn't see mentioned in this thread is head or crosswinds. This as far as I can tell will be another impact on rate of decent as well as speed.

Cruzomatic,
When you caution about stalling, do you mean wing stalling or engine stalling? Is there much risk with glow engines stalling during landings due to lack of throttle combined with slow speed and possibly wind factors?