YD,
I was just wondering about the motor/gliding bit as in those you close the throttle and then adjust the glidepath/rate of descend with the airbrakes (not flaps)
Can see what you mean but for the reasons which I pointed out in my earlier post I am not convinced that there is any benefit at all over the 'common' approach and landing technique.
In fact due to the introduction of a configuration change you are introducing more variables making things potentially more fraught with problems and on top of that there is the one-armed paperhanger issue.
Think that for most aviating sticking to 'the book' pays off.
On a slightly different note is there anyone who has any evidence to suggest that some of the short strip 'techniques' such as getting rid of flaps on touchdown or pulling flaps on reaching rotation speed make any meaningful difference to landing and take-off performance?
IMHO they just introduce added work for no benefit.
FD