IO540, you say,
"With gear down and max flaps, I can descend at about 2000fpm and if that isn't enough then I should have started the descent a few miles further back. It doesn't do the engine that good to do this, either. It's also a good way of making rear passengers sick."
Suppose that your engine should mischievously stop and you find yourself too high to arrive safely in the only suitable field in range ? Go back and start the descent again? I agree, however, that not making your passengers feel even slightly woozy is far more important than not crashing. Why oh why can't they make aeroplanes properly so that they don't have to do that silly tippy uppy thing to go around corners?
It seems a shame to allow your rabid and endlessly reiterated hostility to all forms of aviation tradition to reduce your armoury of flying skills.