I'll give you my method for landing most planes in IL2. (I fly the 109 a lot) First I'm usually going full throttle being chased by (real or imaginary) bandits when I spot the airfield much too late and much too fast. First thing I do is haul back on the throttle, next is apply full rudder in whatever direction will get me to the runway fastest, I then use whatever amount of aileron is necessary to keep me from spinning right into the dirt. If the bandits are real, they have hopelessly overshot me by now, and I pray that they are being roughly handled by the airfields AAA. At about 300KPH I drop flaps and gear willy-nilly in any order and hope I'm roughly lined up with the runway by now. Now the speed is really coming off, so I ease up on the rudder and start correcting all of the mistakes I've made so far (and that's a lot) First I start frantically adjusting the throttle and attitude to get me at approximately 170KPH and pointed at the end of the runway that I want to land on. The rest is easy. I continue to fly at the end of the runway until I run out of balls then cut throttle (if I have any on at this point) and pull the nose up to just above the horizon and wait for whatever happens. If My landing gear survives I immediately raise my flaps and start pumping the brakes and looking for a place to get off the runway, because if one of my knucklehead squad-mates isn't right behind me trying to ram me, the aforementioned bandits (assuming they're real and not blown to Hell by the AAA) are just about ready to pounce on me.
And that is how a 12 year veteran flight simmer
really lands!
