Sully could have landed any airliner in the Hudson that day. He was an excellent pilot. He was restricted on how much he could pull up but he still planned the glide to a picture perfect ditching. His speed control kept the computer from screwing up his flare otherwise the computer would have put him in the Hudson at a high sink rate breaking up the airplane and costing many lives. If you can not flare beyond a certain AOA you can not break your descent rate.