"Final" Indeed! We shall do one final approach to one landing!
The OP mentions 400 to 500 feet. In a normal approach, who'd consider this to be short?
500 feet up on final is not so much "short" as it is in the phase of the final approach where there should be no guesswork or fiddling to be done, other than flying a stabilized, and configured approach to the landing. De-configuring the plane at that point would be rather poor airmanship!