CC
Your educational material is great reading yet again. Thank you.
I do think you might have missed my simplistic view though. With all the talk above about the landing distance available etc, and a wet/ contamintaed runway etc etc, my point was that when the book says you will sneek it in by say 1000' to 2000', that does not afford you the luxury of touch down at 1000-1500' feet, and in very trying conditions you may not get every thing you hoped for from the theoretical figures. So why risk it like they did in Toronto. Seems ok if the runway was wet and a slight tail wind component but when it was considerably worse, you dont have any margin up your sleeve. Hence my comment you can not rely on spot landing it in such conditions.
better to bug off somewhere nice for a cup of tea and try later perhaps.
J