At 19:16 17 February 2017, wrote:
Then there is always the Marty Eiler special: Full spoiler, point
the nose
at the ground, go VNE to 5 feet off the deck. Even accounting
for the float
in ground effect, it uses up gobs of altitude.

The Vne approach is an interesting idea that I won't be trying
without 6000 feet of runway available! How do you get rid of
all that speed 5 feet off the ground? It must produce an
incredibly long float?

Here in France "S" bends on approach are the standard
method taught for microlights, but they all tend to be a lot
dragger than even the poorest glider. Seems to me to be a
valid idea (like the side slip) assuming it's done correctly; any
method that doesn't involve flying through the far hedge/wall
must be good.