Drifter wrote:
When you are on your glideslope and you push the nose down to change the height to stay on the glideslope, in your head you are thinking stick-speed. Because of this you are watching to correct an increase in speed with the throttle, when you reduce throttle to correct the rising speed you know to anticipate more back pressure and to re-trim.
I agree with that completely, (apart from thinking stick-speed: I think stick-rate of descent and then expect speed to increase as a secondary effect )but your words actually describe perfectly the stick-glidepath, power-speed technique!
I agree it doesn't matter what your thought process is but how you handle the aircraft. My point is: to teach flying the approach, it is easier to understand, and is reinforced by S+L techniques, to consider stick-glidepath, power-speed.
Since time immemorial the 'piece of string' idea has been taught. ie If you move the stick forward, the imaginary piece of string through your sleeves requires you to pull the stick back, and vice versa. If low and slow this works, the other technique doesn't.
If I sat next to someone who at 300' on the approach was 5kts below threshold speed and 100 feet low and they pushed the stick forward I would be inclined to take control off them!