Originally Posted by
Step Turn
200 feet back of the threshold, and 30 feet up, I don't really care what your airspeed is, as long as you are able to control the aircraft's speed so as to achieve a suitable flare entry speed as you cross the threshold and an appropriate height. If you want to neatly slip off the 5 knots you carried for the wife and kids, or the gusty day, at the last moments, go ahead. Just enter the flare at a suitable speed (without having ballooned to do it).
The OP has 18 hrs. What you are asking for is simply unrealistic in a student just starting out. "Feel" matters and having that feel for what the aircraft is doing rather than just repeating rote actions separates pilots from aircraft drivers.
However that feel is a product of experience, something new PPL students by definition do not have.
Personally I have the best results by starting with a standard circuit. From 500 feet AGL to touchdown the goal is to have everything the same. This reduces the number of variables the student has to deal. When the landings are consistent then we can start deviating from the standard.
I would also add that it is important to specify what a "good" landing is for a new student. Good landings have nothing to do with the softness of the landing, as you can get lucky and get a squeeker out of a truly terrible approach.
What I want to see is a consistent correct pitch attitude on final with deviations from the desired approach flight path recognized and corrected and a touchdown in the proper
nose up attitude, aligned with the runway centerline and reasonable close to the desired touchdown point. If the landing meets the above criteria but the touchdown was with a bit of a thud, it is still a
good landing.