Your reckoning about the short field performance of a light a/c is also flawed.
Not necessarily - I don't think I said they couldn't get in, but that they wouldn't get in. I've watched some very nice short field approaches in my time, but I like to think I can judge (roughly) how an approach is progressing onto a field I know both from the air and the ground. OK, no probs, my students sometiimes misjudge height on PFL approaches too - that's one reason why we do them.
BTW. One reason I put this comment up in the first place was to gauge reaction and to get help anticipating what I might hear when I talk to said CFIs. If Say again s l o w l y is one of them, I'd better get myself ready for an earfull.
I wondered if it was normal practice to contact a strip operator before using their field as a PFL destination - seems not.
Madam Breakneck