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without a crosswind seems that my unpresisless landings has improvemens a lot almost perfect all of them , the point of touch down,center on the runway,soft touchdown(all without ILS)SECRET seems like not to touch rudder pedals when you're about 2 or 3 miles away from the runway,just aling the aircraft only with ailerons until the wheels touchdown,i,ve been

Depends on whether or not you have  a crosswind...

[quote]Depends on whether or not you have

jordanj is right, but the rule of thumb I was given was: "aileron for drift, rudder to align the nose with the centerline". You've got to take it  easy with the rudder in a crosswind (depending on wind velocity)- don't want to get too "cross-controlled'- better to let the plane track the centerline sideways, nose into the wind (if it wants to) until you flare, THEN apply rudder as needed so you touch down straight. But it depends on the velocity of the wind and its angle relative to the centerline.Then there's the fact that in FS9, despite my best efforts to set it up just right, the airplanes' response to rudder input is sort of extreme compared to real life. Especially when you release rudder pressure- there's too much sloppimg around. Congrats to you, though, that you're making progress! Also, nice telescopes! I have an old Tasco 400x1000 catadioptic, but I live in the city now, so rarely get to do any good observing

Sounds like rottydaddy has the right idea to me. But one also has to rember that every airplane has a max croswind that it is able to land in so you might want to keep that in mind. If the runway you are about to land at has too much crosswind either request a different runway if you can or land at a different field. You can use shift Z to display the wind direction and strength.
The problem is that as a crosswind raises in strength it at some point in strength develops a tail wind factor which you NEVER want to have this number depends on a lot of different factors, type of plane and how much weight is on board at the time of landing.

For me, the key to learning how to make perfect landings was two things-one, when to properly idle the engines (I used to have a problem where I'd do it too early and fall outta the sky) and learning that ILS can only handle a certain amount of crosswind before you have to go visual and hand-fly it in. Practice makes next to perfect