SASless:
A semantic quibble-In most cases it's NOT an "instinctive" reaction when one responds to a situation without conscious consideration. It's situational awareness, prioritizing potential reactions and anticipating the most likely and dangerous problems. Example- flight check w/instructor, one might be a little more aware of wind direction and forced landing areas because you will have at least one power chop with critique. There's a lot of low-effort semi-conscious intellectual contextual analysis proceeding during a flight if you're ahead of the machine. If one is forcing that attention to that decision making process, you're task saturated.
Mr Gillies:
Thank you for refreshing certain theoretical points on residual thrust. It makes a difference in descent rate and angle, but huge change at cushion/pitch pull versus training.
Thoughts on turns to load the disk and increase NR if one was having a really, really bad day?