Sounds like the Ahnold influence.

OLD: LOL  very good!

Excellent tip about that front view. Now that you guys have led me to the virtual c, I use it all the time. I have the trigger on brakes, the button below the hat on gear up/down and the other button on landing lights. I have the toggles on flaps and landing lights & another on auto pilot "on". I will reset all these later today.  point about light planes  is right on. I have a devil of a time landing the Alpha, which is a favorite already. I have totally abandoned the Cub even though it was the reason I got into Flight Sim, as I explained in earlier post. I still can't land w/o ground looping. I don't understand why the MS guys passed that on in History of Flight. I am still struggling with downloading but this is due to my ignorance of computers and its language.  I added one pay CD program, "Ground Environment" which while not ideal, does dress up the scenery more than the default offerred  in FS2004.  Any suggestions you may have on airplanes, scenery, technical or any other subject are most welcome.

Ground environment is good, if your flying alot around areas you are really familiar with(real world) then "Ultimate terrain" is another good choice to spruce up your FS world, it will correct all your shorelines and place all your roads correctly(good for VFR flying)
My earlier suggestion about the Maule still stands    also take a look at this little charmer http://www.fs-tutorials.com/en/down_plane_ not a taildragger but a really solid freeware add-on, which brings me to the statement that if you dont mind pulling out your visa card there is a whole new world of payware aircraft that will take your game to a totally new level, check out Carenado http://www.carenado.com/ecommerce/buscador.php3?categoria=20 you might want to look at there Mooney 

Something new almost every day.  On the groundlooping - if you have unchecked AUTO RUDDER rudder that J3 may even ground loop in the air.  One of the few things, glaringly unreal in FS9, is rudder without pedals.  Try it with AUTO RUDDER checked, lower your aileron and elevator sensitivities to about 2/3 and, as you level out from the glide, feel for the runway with little bits of back on the stick.  Ideally you'll touchdown as the stick hits the stop.  If you were straight when it hit, it'll run straight otherwise you'll have to do a little something with the rudder.

ROM: On your recommendation  I downloaded the Maule -- it was lot of stuff -- and tried without success to get it into FS4000. I gave up and deleted it in frustration. I'll give it another try when I master this download thing so thanks for the tutorial link.  My problem -- as is obvious -- is that I really know very little about computers and almost nothing about flight sim but I am working to correct that.  For instance, my computer will not perform system restore and I have spent hours on the phone with Microsoft and Norton trying to correct the problem. Well, enough of this. Thanks for the advice.   The pay site you mention is Spanish, isn't it? I have seen it.

The idea is to touchdown as close to stalled and on all three points as you can.  If you do this and are straight with the runway, chances are it'll stay straight with very little assistance.  Remember - heels on the floor  .