Lots of good points in this one. Let me add my $0.02 worth as well. Frequency, it's been mentioned but you need to hear it again. Fly at least one day per week. Simulators, worth their weight in gold. They don't help a lot with peripheral issues, but help a great deal with orientation when the model is coming toward you. Here's some new thoughts to this forum; fatigue. Learning to fly R/C is one of the most mentally fatiguing things we can do. Limit your lessons to three flight per day. Any more than that and you will start making mental errors and adding to your frustrations. The last point is one that is heavily trained in the airline industry and that is the Stabilized Approach Concept. It means at some point well out on final approach, the model should be on centerline and not angling toward the runway, on a proper glide path and not being drug in or dived at the runway and lastly on proper speed. If you would imagine a "billboard sized" window 300 - 400 ft. on final and always try to fly through that window it will help a bunch. Learning to land a model is a two step process, the first being a stable approach and when this is mastered, then learning how to flare out for the actual touchdown. When I am teaching students, we concentrate on flying a stabilized approach followed by a go-around until the student can consistently fly an approach to the flare point. Only then do we continue through the flare to a touchdown. The last point is a freebie and that is learning to do a proper go-around. If the whole thing has curdled and you've lost the stabilized approach, do a go-around. The ability to execute a good go-around and to do it anytime things aren't right is a valuable safety tool. Never try to salvage a landing from a poor approach. Good luck!