OK, I'm sure everyone else knows the trick, but I'll be darned if I can find the runway once I'm in the air. RealFlight has a view mode that tries to keep some of the gound in view, but FMS and AeroFly do not.

If I take off, and fly back towards myself I invariably wind up coming in to the runway at the wrong angle. I've tried flying with one eye and watching the compass heading with the other, but I'm not a good enough pilot for that.

It seems like it would be a simple matter for the simulators to display a little half-inch strip along the bottom that's a ground view, but none of them do.

Can someone teach me the trick to this? I'm just not getting it.

Thanks!