I find the most difficult part of manual landing, to keep the plane perfectly (horizontal) aligned with the runway. (vertical angle is no problem)

I was wondering if there are any spots on the panel to give a rough feeling of the horizontal angle or do you only use the instruments.

The funny thing is, when I am appraoching it feels if the plane is a  a bit oblique (hope I translate this right)aligned to the runway but if I correct this and  get closer I notice that the horizontal angle for the approach shift away to the left or right ending up not perfectly aligned and an urgent need to correct.

 

Does anyone has a tip for me what helps if flying the 747 or 777.

Regards

 

Eric

You will see the pink localiser diamond at the bottom of the PFD to help keep you aligned with the runway. Also use light movements to correct the aircraft whilst closely following the flight director to bring you down to the runway.

You will see the pink localiser diamond at the bottom of the PFD to help keep you aligned with the runway. Also use light movements to correct the aircraft whilst closely following the flight director to bring you down to the runway.

In that case you follow the instruments and not your "visuals"?

Don't over correct, and correct the trend not the error. For example, focus on if you are trending towards the left or right and correct to stop the trend then slightly start taking the left/right error out. In MSFS, the picture of the landing environment beyond 3 nm or so is insufficient for visual so use anything else you have available such as ILS or RNAV approaches. Once you have a good visual on the runway and landing zone, don't focus on the approach end but keep the entire length of ruinway in your picture and keep it frozen laterally. Don't forget winds will affect the picture and crab angle may be required to freeze the picture. Finally, practice... lots of it.

Thanks, I´ll keep practising.

One tip that helped me a lot in my beginnings... concentrate on the far end, not on near end.