Hi Chuck et al;
You rightly say that if people can not judge the height about the runway that they are going to make arrivals not landings and that most people that struggle may well find that this is due to poor instructing.
However you fail to indicate how you do it or how you instruct your pupils.
While I happily admit that with experience it is perfectly possible to land without using the looking in the distance and watch the angle of approach change method; for those in the early stages of learning the game it seems to be the method that works best.
The problem is that contrary to popular belief you only use stereoscopic view to judge distances of less than 2 meters. For distances over this we use experience.
However the method which relies on looking into the distance we use our ability to judge angles. Humans are a lot better at that than judging dept.
So what I usually do when folk find judging the flare different is just to let them say out loud look in the distance a few times during the latter stages of the approach. Works a treat.
Oh yes and when do you change from looking at the aiming point to looking in the distance? When you are about to overfly your aiming point.
Someone on here mentioned that it is best to stick with one instructor. Agree that it would be bad to have a lot of changes but a bit of variety later on will teach you different things and if ever you feel that you are not progressing I think a change of instructor is an excellent idea. At worst he/she will confirm that taking up fishing would be a good plan but quite often a new set of eyes and a different approach is just what is needed to get going again.
As always, MHO of course
FD