Airplanes don’t drive like a car on the ground. When you add power to take off, they torque to the left. Steer the plane with your rudder.
Don’t yank the plane off of the ground. You will nose up sharply, stall, and return to the hard ground immediately.
Conversely, don’t get so proud of your take-off that you let go of the elevator. You will also crash that way, too. Fly the plane as needed for a good climb out.
Airplanes don’t drive like a car in the air either. If you hold the ailerons over in a turn, you will fall into a “death spiral”. Use only enough aileron to get the bank angle you want, relax MOST of the aileron control, and CLIMB through the turn with elevator.
When you complete a turn, use opposite aileron to level the wings and release the climbing elevator a split second BEFORE you level out.
When the plane is coming toward you, the ailerons seem to be reversed. They aren’t. It’s your brain that is reversed. When the plane is coming toward you move the stick toward the DOWN wing to level.
Throttle is your altitude control, elevator is your speed control.
A properly trimmed plane flies better than you do; if it is bouncing around at altitude, you can usually improve matters by letting go of the controls.
Learn to lead the plane in flight, not follow behind it (proactive rather than reactive).
For landings, hold enough up elevator to keep the plane horizontal or slightly positive. This is your brake. Too much "up" is a stall, too little is a dive.
Do not try to make a good landing out of a poor approach. Leave that to the experienced pilots. If your approach is not good, power up and go around.
There is plenty of pavement on the far side of the runway. Use it while you are learning to land.
Steer for direction with your rudder, level your wings with ailerons.
For a good approach, fly through a floating “window frame” that is about 100’ x 100’, and is located about 50’ away from the end of the runway and its base is about 50’ above the ground.
Fine tune your descent and touch down with throttle, not elevator. Avoid porpoising .
As you slow down on final approach, the elevator becomes less effective, requiring more elevator stick back to hold your pitch attitude. However, too much pitch = stall = crash; too little pitch = dive = crash. Find the “sweet spot” of just the right amount of positive pitch attitude for your approach.
DO NOT land on the nose wheel. That means a new prop almost every time. Land on the mains.
If you bounce a landing, you must do something. Touch the power and re-flair. If you do nothing, the bounces will get worse until you take out a prop or more.
Once on the ground, REMEMBER to STEER with the RUDDER. No sharp turns until your speed has bled off sufficiently. Also remember your brain reversal with the rudder control when the plane is taxiing back to you.