Talking about my experience with the SM F-18C: Usually all goes well until it starts to pitch up on its own, making it desacelerate and stop flying very quickly... all this at the same time the wings begin to "rock" and and the nose tries to bite it´s tail.

This simptoms where greatly reduced after installing gyros on rudder and aleirons on it. But even so I land it with some power and a moderate angle of attack, never trying to "stretch" a glide on the final approach.

Enrique