If you are going to teach yourself to fly, I don't suggest you practice until you can land with the trainers on the sims. Find the crapiest flying plane you can and when you no longer have problems with it you will have better luck for real. It is not just the landings but the takeoffs are unrealistic. Also the zoom mode..if you have G5 use the "Keep Ground in View" zoom until you get it-then switch to manual zoom with about 2or 3 +'s. Practice doing touch and goes at full throttle with a Dazzler or an Extra Special. In a sim easier is not better. Make it as hard as you can. then when you fly for real it will be a piece of cake. But I can't help you with the takeoff..you'll probably have to learn those with a real plane. Use lots of crosswind like 20 mph. Real flying isn't always this difficult but push yourself to your limit on the sim. It will save you money. If you aren't getting fustrated with what you are working on it's time to find something on the sim that will. Flying is a blast-there aint enough caffiene to give me the rush I get from flying. I get nothing from the sim. But it keeps my planes in one piece.-BW