On my home runway there's a big patch of sink that means that anybody on a stabilised approach at 200 feet is setting themselves up to land short.
I aim to fly every approach high and use sideslip to correct it. Partly because it's fun, and partly because it seems like a safer thing to do than to power in from miles out, with the risk of landing short if you have an engine failure.
Perhaps this is the real reason reducing flaps is a bad idea: there are better ways of controlling your glide angle. It's all very well using a mechanism that enables you to steepen your approach whenever you feel high, but at least if you aim to go in with a degree of slip you can reduce your glide angle without having to cope with all the trim changes and changes in stall speed that result from playing with the flaps.
Last edited by abgd; 5th May 2015 at 15:59.