Originally Posted by
Ewfflyer
GrUpGrDn said exactly what I wanted to say to start off. Look further away, too many people fixate on what's right infront of them. Do you do this in a car? I doubt it, so don't do it in a plane.
Also, maybe you should go out and just do a fun lesson, practice different manuevers, etc.. Get your mind off the landings and it might just help you out.
+1
Have your instructor perform a "Landing Attitude Demo" -- meaning, have the instructor bring the aircraft right down over the runway, with the wheels just barely touching, and hold that attitude (they will have to ad a bit of power to remain airborne). Your job is to look at the flare picture. See how the nose of the the aircraft relates to the runway environment. As others have said, look at the runway end ... and see how the nose relates to this. Take a snapshot of this picture.
Next time around, you do the landing. Once you get close to the runway, transition your eyes to the end and repeat the same flare picture.
Believe it or not, in the USAF, we do landing attitude demos in the big airplanes (DC10s, etc) so students can see the flare picture. I have floated down the runway several times in a DC-10 ... it's pretty cool. But it is very useful to a student who is struggling to get the flare picture.
My two cents.