Nobody has mentioned that one of the reasons to avoid aiming for the numbers
and to plan your touchdown point to be at the 1/3 point of a std 3000'
training rwy is to allow a margin for an engine failure on short final.

Boy, I've been flying for a looooong time, and I never heard that one
before!

Strikes me as developing one bad habit to correct for another bad
habit.

If you fly a proper approach, you'll make the runway whether or not
the engine keeps running.

Unless you're landing at a place like Dulles, where touching down on
the numbers means a hell of along taxi, it's good practice to hit the
numbers. Someday it may save your hide.

vince norris