The right way?

I was taught:
1) to run out of excess altitude and excess airspeed at the same time you
reach the appropriate part of the runway on which to land... a greaser as it
were...

2) nose wheels were not made to be landed on.. damage to many a cezzna
firewall has been the result.. also nose collapse on Beech Sports and
Sundowners... Grumman AA1As don't like nose strikes either.. landing "on all
three" can result in flat spot on main tires with locked up brakes with
C-182s.... I can't think of one airplane that likes to lead nose wheel first
on landing

3) excess speed in the "flare" results in excess "float" in ground effect,
which results in a forced landing (more prone to nose strikes) and excess
wear on the brakes before meeting the trees at the far end of the runway..

4) floating down short runways in a cross wind is not a fun event just
because you carried an extra 5 knots for mamma and each kid...

5) tires and brakes with grass do not mix... they slide off each other...
right into the trees at the far end...

just a few... I'll see what else I can remember..
BT
"Steve" wrote in message
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Back in the training days of my PPL I had the bad habit of landing with a
some throttle still in (instead of power idle) and with little pitch
attitude. But the landings were always pretty smooth. Now I do what the
instructor taught me: cut off all power before threshold and raise the
nose
wheel well up in the air during flare. In the final part I get the stall
warning tweet (as the instructor told it should be) and the result is a
somewhat rude main gear contact if the timing of the flare is not perfect.
Sure the plane stops in very little space (we operate on a 2000 feet
runway), but I get the feeling that I don't do it the right way since very
seldom I grease it out as I did before. Is just a matter of refining the
technic or am I missing something?