Chesty
As a building leaping ATPL, you have probably fogotten your mere PPL days
I think the technique is not literal (I hope so, or it would involve smooching along in ground effect with the right level of power set), but rather taught by instructors to try and prevent studes and others burying the 150 into terra firma nosewheel first.
Even whilst attempting this technique, I bet that a fair amount still touch down with a little excess airspeed. See my earlier comments about the extent of the backward "pull" required to land a forward c of g PA28 for example. How many people get the yoke back into their chests in the flare, I wonder?
Firm, but consistent, arrivals in the touchdown zone tend to appear a little later in the syllabus IIRC
, unless a short grass strip is involved.
I learned on 1600m of tarmac and certainly couldn't touch down consistently in the right area until I moved to a short grass strip and some kind soul showed me how.
I ain't defending it, but that's my experience.
I didn't really learn to land anything like well until a kindly TRE showed me how in a sim, to be fair he was in a different league of instructional capability to anything I ever encountered in the private flying world.
To this day, I have total respect for the standards required by the big European airlines and was lucky to see the gulf between that and PPL pottering about. Made me realise that it was important for us amateurs to develop a professional attitude, the most important part of which was a very realistic view of our own capability.