Why don't you just take the airplane up to 10,000 feet and do some slow flight, climbs and descents by hand? Just learn to work headings, altitudes, airspeed and vert speed before going on to landings!- Neeraj

This is called ground effect and you start to fly into it from about 1 wingspan down. It is a cushioning effect. Quite often you will see helicopters use it to cruise along at low level prior to pulling up into high speed forward flight. More efficient and less power required.You will have to lower the nose to stay on the GS.CheersSteve

What I have found hard - After years of 2d, landing from the vc has been quite a challenge, but fun. All the great advice in this thread still applies, but the world just got so BIG, plus the vc gives you the pilot's (seat) perpective better than 2d.Getting much better now though :)regards,MarkXPHomeSP2/FS9.1/3.2HT/1024mb/X700pro256

Just flew Singapore to Bangkok with the 744 and some lovely weather provided by Flight Environment. I flew the 03L approach into Bangkok (no ILS at that end) and absolutely greased it. Oh, yes!!!! Just a pension card between the rubber and the tarmac and that was just jockeying the throttles to keep the VASI lights in the right place. I would love to take all the credit for this but unfortunately I can't. The 744 has such great handling that anyone can do it with practice and, as in my case, with a modicum of luck as well. Wish I had videod it! Keep at it guys, it is just a matter of time but as in real world flying you can grease them on, quite by chance simply by doing exactly the same thing for all those times when it didn't happen. Practise and practise again folks, that;s the answer!Gerry