Touching down on the numbers...
I've been reading more Chuck Yeager and was impressed reading about his conistant ability to touch his main gear down inches after the beginning of the runway everytime, to the amazment of his peers.
This made me think about my landings and I realised that I tend to come over the numbers at anything up to 50ft! (Usually because there is no need to be precise unilke Chuck landing at 200kts in his Sabres) So I've been thinking, how many people regularly aim to touch down on the numbers? This then raises the issue of the flare. Surely in order to touch down on the numbers you have to start your flare before the runway begins, which is obviously not possible at some places (tricky on 26 at Elstree). So take for example Stapleford, runway 22, displaced threshold. You are not supposed to touch down befrore the displaced threshold, but is it ok to descend over the under shoot and flare before the numbers?
I'll be interested to hear peoples thoughts on this. I know one advantage of touching down on the numbers is that one day you might be in a situation where you need all the availiable lenght of the runway in order to stop.