Horses for courses
Fibod.
Thanks for that. I agree the 'switch' has to made higher than 100ft otherwise there isn't time to adapt to the new technique. I tried out my 100ft this week and it is too late.
I can no longer criticise a student who uses the old method o maintain a good visual approach path, or papis, and decides to go 'point and power' in the last part to achieve a possible touchdown 'just after the numbers'. However this can produce a 'banana' shape to the approach profile particularly if he has been using papis (which are set up for a touchdown beyond the numbers).
I cannot resist telling the tale of how I had to impress my CFI (Boss to Americans - not certified flying instructor). This was a short field pattered landing. He had a cold so the upper work was 'binned' which suited me fine as I always felt sick after the mandatory spin aeros etc, Suffice to say I really worked hard in the Chipmunk to land it next to the 'caravan' . There was NO POINT AND POWER in this approach - I could see nothing of the windscreen in the back seat and it was all 'along the side' of the left fuselage. I managed to achieve the 'increase of power' to reduce the vertical component in the approach path so that a touchdown was achieved in the right place at an incredibly low speed. If the runway caravan had been a 'snowbird' size mobile home (minus compact car at the back) I would have claimed a landing to full stop in the length of the caravan. Nothing to boast of here-just bringing the two threads that have been running here together.