It's not too hard to avoid tailstrikes, as long as you bleed off enough speed without too much pitch as you touch down.
And foo_fighter, as quoted from the troubleshooting portion of the manual "Engine starting isn't as simple as most Flight Simulator aircraft. Like the real aircraft, you are required to do certain things at certain times. For ease of training, a voice prompt system has been implemented to "walk you through it". Also, since the keyboard is no substitute for the switches used in the real aircraft, most of the button pressing has been automated by the simulator software itself. Without considering the checklist procedures, you can simply start the engines by clicking on GND and then pushing the joystick throttle from the lowest range to the highest range (this simulates pulling the throttle from CUTOFF to IDLE). Some joysticks physically have a CUTOFF feature like the real aircraft, and you will need to configure the joystick according to the manual's procedure (the microSimulator has no way of knowing if your joystick has this feature)."
If that didn't help, try starting in a different airplane, then start the engines, then switch to the T-37.
