In rec.aviation.student Stefan "stefan"@mus. invalid .ch wrote:
Bob Noel wrote:

get a glider rating.

Spot landing a glider is fairly trivial whith those spoilers which let
you adjust the glide angle from 1/40 to 1/7 or so without slipping.
Those spam cans have way more momentum and no spoilers. Of course you
can slip them.

There's also no altitude penalty for closing the spoilers once you
have them open so you can continously adjust them during the approach.
This makes them work more like a throttle than flaps. Push the lever
forward to go further, pull it back to go down. :-)

Boris