FS9 C172 Autorudder off... what the?

Beautiful way to illustrate. I'd love to fly with you. Thanks for being so patient. Now to decide on CH or Saitek equipment... yoke, throttle quadrant, and pedals. I've sold my pickup truck and my motorcycle so I can afford to get the most dependable and well-built devices.MH

Okay, I've done a little sketch that might help you, a bit exaggerated, but it should make sense:At five or eight miles or whatever, I see the runway is not in alignment, so using how it appears I mentally draw the dotted lines and get the point (marked as an X) that indicates where I should be overhead, to have the runway dead centre. I'm then no longer using the appearance of the runway so much as the point I've mentally plotted as being the sweet spot, so, it's a thirty degree turn to the right to aim for getting overhead of that spot. It has to be a fairly tight turn, as there is no time to mess about with the runway getting nearer, so a positive decision to sort things out as opposed to edging across is the way to go. As that point X approaches it will be under your aircraft, so it's eyes back to the runway out of the left three quarter view from the windscreen and observe when the runway is coming into line, because I'll have to anticipate turning back into line with the runway before it actually is, by making a thirty degree turn to the left, just a little before I'm at the sweet spot.With a bit of practice you can get very good at this, but pay particular attention to the turn rate of your aircraft, and that's where smooth flying and being aware of the turn rate indicator in your aircraft can help. You will find that you mostly do it by feel rather than specific measurements. Normally, on a real circuit, you tend to anticipate turning onto final and then either open out or tighten up your turn to get into line for landing, so this technique is really nothing more than an extension of that procedure; kind of 'mentally' doing what an ILS system does. Hope that makes sense.Incidentally, if you want to do some practice for this, then there is an interesting technique you can try which used to be more common among student pilots, but doesn't get seen a lot these days. You can do it in a garden, or a big room...Get a book and plonk it in the middle of the room - this is your runway - now, what you do is draw a line mentally from the touchdown point back up to where you turn onto final, then draw a line back from the there to the turn for the crosswind leg, and then another line from the crosswind turn point to the start of the downwind leg, and stand at that point. Then you walk the route and crouch down to get the sight picture of your 'book runway' at all points on the circuit, at all points on the 'circuit', you should be no lower than a 4:1 incline angle to the threshhold. This is how you can practice for emergency landings in fields too incidentally, since you effectively use the same technique by mentally drawing a runway onto your chosen emergency landing field, and then draw the circuit back from the touchdown point up to the start point of what will be your circuit. If you were wondering how glider pilots manage to get down in fields in the middle of nowhere when they run out of lift and have to land, then now you know what they do!Al