How do I properly land? Easy question, hard to do... I just start with a small rocket, go to 5000m with a random, small sideway speed, stop my engines and try to land anywhere on Kerbin, but that's hard. I drift sideways? Try to negate, but shooting over the goal or just don't properly reach it. It's very hard to get really NO horizontal speed, because even a small value will make your rocket falling to the side. Getting down is also hard. Trying to get the rocket to ca. 2 m/s down is not easy. Too much thrust = starting to raise. Too few thrust = crashing into the terrain. Even with a small speed, you just bounce from the ground and fall sideways, because you horizontal speed was 0.02 and not 0... Getting all of this right on the same time is incredibly hard.