You can use the autopilot to autoland on the carrier if you are having difficulty hand-flying it, although there is one mission in the Operation WarPac Reunion campaign were you will have to manually get the aircraft back onto the deck.
Here's one I produced for Lock On v1.02
http://www.the-eighth-art.com/Su33OWR.htm
Someone was going to rewrite it for 1.1 but don't know if that ever happened.