ORIGINAL: RCKen
Most everybody when learning to fly learns to line up on the runway, chop the throttle, and let the plane settle to the runway.
Ken
This is not how my instructor taught me to land. He had me line up with the runway, then cut throttly and "dive" the plane towards chest level. Once the plane is at chest level right in front of you, you keep going down until your are inces above the runway, and then start to flair a bit. keep adding up elevator until it stalls on the gear. A good landing is one where it stalls at the same time the gear is touching the runway.
He never wanted me to float the plane in for a landing.
His favorite thing to say, "keep the nose down and keep it coming at you."