Sorry to be so flip with my first response, however subjects like this keep coming up. Bottom line - there is a best practice technique for most tasks. Many of these best practices are designed to result in the safest methods.

From this "best practice" there develops alternative methods. Some of these other methods are for good reason, but they do not supplant the reasons for the best practice method.

This is a big subject, and I have submitted a lengthy article regarding landings for publishing in Soaring Magazine - probably after the first of the year.

Gather your stones for throwing.

Tom Knauff