Opposite RWY, wait until after SS, or do a "No-Flare" landing
Fireflybob,
One may consider:
- Request opposite runway indeed, wind permitting.
- Considering that the worst situation is when the sun is almost at the lowest, simply delay your arrival a bit so as to be on final a few minutes AFTER SS. When there is a hill somewhere between runway and horizon, that hill will take out the sun problem some minute(s) earlier than SS (some have "night" defined as "after SS"(!), rather than ICAO definition "after End of Evening Civil Twilight").
When already on final and then realising to be squinting into a blinding sun, your GO-AROUND, then same thing.
Or - with more anticipation - plan to arrive before the sun is so low.
- On short final set up for a slow flight with a power setting giving you typically 200 fpm RoD. Maintain airspeed and power until the mainwheels hit the runway, then close the throttle. Slow flight gives you the attitude for avoiding noseweel landing. The technique is from seaplane flying for "glassy-water" landings, but worked fine for me in an into-sun landing.
If unfamiliar, finding suitable airspeed, flap (10º, 20º) and power setting can be practiced at altitude.
BTW you need more than normal runway length depending on where on final you initiate the procedure and because you basically do not know where you are going to touch down.
jr