Jay Honeck wrote:

That's interesting. From my student days I was always taught to fly a
stabilized approach, from abeam the numbers on crosswind, all the way till
the flare.

That's because most CFIs are building time for the majors and they tend to train
you as if you were planning to fly jets too. If you get a CFI who isn't planning
on doing anything except flying light aircraft and convince him that you don't
intend to do anything else either, you frequently get different instructions.
Even if this is not the case, if you ask a CFI why he recommends a particular
course of action, the answer frequently is that you need to get in the habit of
doing whatever 'cause you need to do it that way "when you upgrade to higher
performance aircraft".

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.