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From: "Mxsmanic"
Now, how are you looking at the traffic when you try to check if it
has passed your wingtip?

You look out the window. The side window is most useful for this. Pretty
obvious. He will be lower than you and in a high wing aircraft like the 172
you can see the traffic and the wing at the same time. Haven't flown a low
wing, but would imagine you would do something similar like, "watch the
traffic, and the wing will 'hide' the traffic, and then when the traffic is
past your wingtip it the traffic will be visible again...

And for some reason, I always seem to drift slightly left just as I'm
coming up on decision height. I don't know what does this. The
engines are usually near idle, so it doesn't seem like it'd be a
sudden surge of torque or anything. And it seems improbable that the
surface winds are _always_ blowing to the left.

It has been several months since I messed around with Flight Sim, but I
haven't ever really noticed this, so I can't really comment on what is going
on. The winds due depend on if you are using the "real weather" or not...
Can't comment on anything more than 172.