Silvaire1,
Very interesting. I had never read about Army and Navy techniques.
For a second, I thought you were going to tell us the Navy technique was a 'no-flare' landing.
A concern I would have about the Navy technique is getting slow on final and then flying through a wind-gradient. How do you handle that?
If I'm aiming for a no-float landing, I slow-down and apply power to compensate for being on the back-side of the drag curve.
I always think of it as 'try to prevent the aeroplane from touching down'
SSD,
That was the way I was taught, even on tricycle gear. Of course, this was so long ago that one of my instructors at White Waltham was "Wilbur" Wright!
Do they teach things differently these days?