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The throttle will be a non issue after a couple flights. The hardest part I had in initial lessons was attempting to manage the following three things all at once while landing in the nearly always present crosswind:
1- Keeping the airplane pointed straight ahead while 2- flying straight down the center of the runway while 3- flaring.
On a dead calm day or when the wind was straight down the runway, ailerons naturally keep you heading "straight" down the runway then your brain can concentrate on flaring. With any crosswind however, one needs to feed in opposite rudder while rolling in additional aileron to maintain runway heading and to keep the wheels inline with the pavement.
I was quite frustrated at first as I understood what I was supposed to do, but applying/varying just the right amount of crossed controls was not natural for me. IOW, I could juggle any two factors while landing, but the third item (opposite rudder) overtaxed me. Eventually muscle memory started to take place and somewhere before 10 hours the instructor hopped out and soloed me.
The rest of my experience in learning to "fly" an airplane seemed very simple, although I can remember being nervous when being taught how to talk to air traffic controllers.
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