Hi Pace,
Now you've got me worried: please enlighten me.
...or holding off till the aircraft stalls onto the runway it bothers me a lot.
I was taught
specifically to do this fifty-five years ago by an ex RAF instructor who had spent much of the war flying heavy, multi-engined tail-draggers. (I myself was learning in an Auster Autocrat J1 tail-dragger).
Subsequently, I flew in a Chipmunk on occasion with two or three more ex RAF pilots (although one of these had been trained during the war by the US Navy at Pensacola and another by the USAAF in Arizona). All these guys landed in this fashion. None of them commented when I landed in this fashion.
In fact it was only in the mid naughties that anybody even commented to me on this practice. That was at one specific flying establishment where the chief instructor, who closely controlled training standards, was someone most of whose professional career had been on fast jets.
So is there some objection to holding off, that has only come to light in recent years, that I haven't heard about? What's wrong with holding off until the aircraft stalls onto the runway?
Please advise.
BP.