Perception is the key to keeping the ground-based pilot controlling a flying rather than falling aircraft. I could not agree more. Piloting a aircraft from the ground is much more difficult than piloting one from within, because of the two distinct references we are forced to deal with. My final thought on attempting to provide a good explanation is this - there is no "absolute reference " - The air moves in reference to the ground, and the ground moves in reference to the air. Inertia is generated in the reference the object is within. If we keep our minds on airspeed rather than groundspeed we may be able to keep our ships in one piece a bit longer.

BTW - in a glide we are much better off to put the nose down a bit more rather than try to "stretch the glide" by pulling back - increasing the AOA causes higher drag and a steeper glide angle. Done this many times in Cubs.