Originally Posted by
Lagoon
As a student and now a pilot, it has always helped me to focus on the far end of the runway I'm landing on. Once I have that in sight, my hands and feet just follow my eyes like a goalie looking into a punter's eyes to predict the ball's trajectory.
When I was a flight instructor in the Navy, I taught "Far End, Near End, Airspeed."
Far End - gave the general idea of where we need to be going (in case of parallel runways)
Near End - shifting my eyes from the Far End gives me two points in order to make an extended centerline; Near End also brings the aimpoint into focus to adjust my glidepath.
Airspeed -
"Airspeed is Life." If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times.
I use the same scan even today. Nighttime is a little easier because you have the entire (lighted) runway for alignment.