Hi Don,
I've had RealFlight since it first came on the market, back then I thought RealFlight was the cats meow from the Dave Brown Sim I previously had.
Since I got RealFlight and steped up to G2 Interlink, Its made a world of differience. My flying has got 100 times better, I've moved up to a low wing plane faster and now am starting into Intermediate Aerbatics this flying season. Due to work schedule and family live my flying time has been cut drasticly. So I rely on my Sim when I can't fly at the field.
One thing to solve you orientation problem is to edit your flying field and use two plyon poles. Move these poles to the far corners of your flying field as far as they will go, then make them 50 % scale. They will help you figure out where your at . Then use your horizone or keep the tops of the trees at the bottom of your screen and fly just above them. Use these two thing and you'll fing the run way everything. Just gets getting alittle use to.
Your plane size maybe too small, so you might want to edit your plane and change it to 2.0 or 2.5 scale in the edit screen. Get there by pushing "E" on the key board.
Hope this helps you.
NEDYOB