Well, I got the answer to my earlier question, when would one NOT fly a plane to a full stall touchdown?
Today, I had the wonderful privilege of taking B. Burns, a WWII P-51 pilot, up in my Pitts S2C. I didn’t know anyone, much less a man who is nearly eighty years old, could make that plane behave as gracefully as he did. In any event, we were talking about the P-51 after our flight. Well, one does not do full stall landings in a P-51. It’s got no stall break, just drops like a brick once it passes the critical angle of attack. So if you want to preserve the gear and avoid ground loops, you fly it on everytime…maybe holding the tail off six inches or so.
I don’t suppose that applies to the Cirrus. Speaking of which, regarding the approach speeds above, as the Mooney drivers note, the approach speed only matters depending on how much runway you have. The touchdown speed should be about the same in all cases, ie stall…and you shouldn’t see that on the airspeed, cause your eyes SHOULD be out of the cockpit.