Pantload,
I wasn't trying to be smart. The reason I said
Carrier pilots maybe, but not normal aircraft.
is because my understanding is that carrier technique is (was?) to do what the original poster mentioned: low on slope, push up the power to get back on it ie hold a constant AOA and control slope via the secondary effect of power; maybe has a more useful effect because of the body angle/thrust vector.
Kramer,
These are all constant speed scenarios. If you want to go down you need to remove energy (thrust) from the equation - it's as simple as that.
You are flying the aeroplane via the secondary effects of controls. Works well in a bugsmasher, not well in a jet in my experience because the effect doesn't happen fast enough to correct the error that prompted the correction. Each to his own, tho.