Circa 1982 I watched an MD83 belonging to Peter Conrad land at Nauru island in the Central Pacific. The name on the fuselage was Friendship 83 and it was on an around the world trip to sell MD 83's.
The runway on Nauru in those days was 5600 ft long and no over-run safety areas.
The aircraft came over the fence very high compared to how we flew the Boeing 737-200 of Air Nauru where we used the T-VASIS. I thought it would surely overrun as it touched down a long way in. Maximum braking saved it that day. Later we talked to the captain who said he used the HUD for all landings.
After watching with increasing alarm at the high flare, long float and deep landing, I thought it was the height of poor airmanship to use a HUD on a sunny day visual approach instead of normal eye sight judgement coupled with T-VASIS slope guidance that we used in the old 737-200's.