**Danger -- long post**
foxmoth is kind of right if we are being **really** pedantic. If you get the flare right, then even though the stall warning horn is going off, the plane is still in mushing flight and will descend gently onto the runway.
I still think the attitude is the same between the two types. A 172 should be just as nosehigh as a taildragger when landing, considering that the wing, tailplane etc. will be doing the **same thing** in both types. Remember the definition of a 'texas taildragger', a nosewheel cessna with a tailwheel conversion... Same aircraft, same landing, different rollout...
My first instructor wouldn't let me solo until I could do this everytime in a 172, but I never could get it exactly right everytime. Something about keeping coming back on the yoke and not being able to see exactly where I was relative to the ground. I always seemed to land a bit too fast, with the yoke still having some travel left. If you do this regularly, you will occasionally let the nosewheel hit too early or bounce, and the dreaded 172 shimmy and/or PIO may well result. One of by fellow students did exactly this and broke the gear off in an off-runway excursion via a taxi sign...
Citabria has much better visibility, and it is easier to hold in the flare for just this reason. Ideally it should grease itself onto the ground, just as full back stick travel is reached, and the pilot just can't keep it off the ground anymore. Note that this is the same as for a 172 !!
Glider is a different story. Just flare it, and fly onto the ground gently. Make sure to pull full airbrakes if not already pulled. The main wheel is usually about under CG, so it will just roll along the ground. You need some speed to steer on the ground with the rudder and keep the wings level during rollout. I like to let it come down to about 45 kts in the flare, 10 kts above stall, but have landed at 60 kts with full brakes when necessary to get down and get the wheel brake working.
[This message has been edited by kabz (edited 30 April 2001).]