Don`t like this idea of a 3 degree approach. Thats fine for airliners but Russian Roulette for SEPs. It gives me the willies watching the a/c at Kidlington. If the Donk stops anywhere on their circuit they are in a field if they are lucky and in the woods if they`re not. Once on your downwind leg you should be within gliding range of the field.
On the subject of landing, or probably flareing:- you do not change from a controlled, fairly steep approach to a flare in an instant, it is a smooth, controlled transition. So many people seem to try to make the change too quickly so they either do it too high and then have to put the nose down again, or they leave it too late whereupon they balloon back up into the air after a frantic heave to avoid a collision with the ground. I learned to fly as a Glider Pilot and only recently converted to power (SLMG), maybe its different.
Regards
Mike W.