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?
Nothing wrong with holding off on a nice calm day when the birds are singing the sun is shining and you have a nice long runway and it doesn't matter if you hit the numbers
A bit different when the wind is 90 degrees across 10 KTS gusting 25 KTS with wind shear
Horses for courses as they say
whose professional career had been on fast jets.
( I bet that instructor didn't hold those off )
There are many ways to land an aircraft some pretty some not so pretty but as in any aspect of flying you should have the skills to dip into what ever the conditions require not just one and it could be that HOLDING OFF is the very worst thing you can do. We are conditioned to land at or near the stall great the stopping distance will be good but pretty pointless if you have used up 1/3 of the runway getting to that stage or if a down draught means your stall happens sooner than you would like
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