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**Mxsmanic**

writes:

I may have misunderstood your earlier post about being misaligned when
crossing the threshold. I originally thought you meant that you were
not positioned over the centerline (bad), but maybe you meant that
your airplane's centerline was not parallel to the runway centerline.

It can be one or both, depending on how uncoordinated I am that day.

I'm rarely on the centerline when I turn at the last minute, but there is
still time to line up, usually. But being absolutely on the centerline and
parallel to it is less common, especially if there is any kind of wind. I
can't feel a crosswind in the sim, of course, but I can "feel" (note quotation
marks) the aircraft drifting to one side or otherwise moving by looking out
the window or watching the instruments (in low visibility). I'm so-so at
correcting for that.

If MSFS is configured with 72 kt gusts at ground level, I just dial them down,
as I could never land with that wind in real life, anyway. (This is a known
problem on VATSIM, which for some reason will more than double the speed of
gusts if the wind is gusting.)

If so, then that is not unusual, or bad, but you MUST align before
touchdown. (Use rudder to straighten out, and opposite aileron to
prevent lateral drift)

That's what I try to do. I try to use both rudder and aileron unless I'm
extremely close to the runway, as I've read that using rudder alone is a Bad
Thing.

Yes, straightening out after a slip seems to be harder in the sim than
in the real plane.

There is probably a smooth way to do it, but I haven't learned it yet. If I'm
a thousand feet off the ground it doesn't matter much, but very close to the
runway it makes me nervous. So I might slip down to the pattern altitude but
not beyond. I've seen people slip practically to touchdown, though.

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