Reasons for learning to land:
1.Some FSO and other events require landing successfully or you are out of the second frame.
2.It will help your plane handling skills over all.
3.It's just more realistic and immersive to actually bring a plane home after a mission.
I practiced off line using the arden08s terrain from Soda's "Legend of Y29" off line mission. I practiced in sector 8.9, bases 50 and 53. I practiced flying between the two bases and landing, using the landing procedure from the trainers files.
For whatever reason, I initially found the Spitfires and others difficult to land and started with the FM2. Even though this plane doesn't have a particularly wide landing track I found it docile enough to handle and started with it.
I start on NE runway from base 50, after takeoff, you will need to turn to the left for a while prior to getting back on your original heading in order to line up with the runway at base 53. Once you have landed at 53 you can simply end sortie and do it again, but you might as well get some ground practice by taxiing to the end of the runway and stopping on the rearm pad to the right, then you can reset your flaps, taxi around and take off SW and fly back the same way to base 50.
I was able to get a lot of landings in because the bases are so close together and I would continue to shorten the time on the downwind leg until I was breaking just before the runway and staying in a continuous turn, quickly landing on the runway avoiding most of the glide path altogether.
Instead of crash landing every time, I can now quickly land any plane, and have a good start on carrier landings as well.
It worked for me.