Visual Flying (and landing) a plane is really not that hard. There's quite a bunch of rules and protocols that you have to follow and learn before you can take

Visual Flying (and landing) a plane is really not that hard. There's quite a bunch of rules and protocols that you have to follow and learn before you can take the yoke, but they're safety rules so that you're not a danger to other flying objects, and well, because when you're airborne you can't simply stop if there's a problem. Driving a car around and flying a plane around are really in the same ballpark in terms of difficulty. As an aside, people have a fear of landing when actually it's taking off that's more perilous: pull too early and you're just slowing yourself, and pull too late and there's the end of the track, with trees and whatnot. What's more, if anything goes wrong, you will be going down at a moment you're not supposed to (on the track past the point of no return, and after the end, when you don't have enough altitude to recover and by definition no place to land anymore). Compare with landing, where by definition you have room to land (even if it's a tough one) and you have both speed and altitude, since you're in the process of flying, then controlling your descent. It's then just a matter of lining along the track's vertical plane, then approaching the horizontal one not too fast.