"The approaches are shallow. Unlike the brand X planes that have an elevator that can drive down the tail and change the angle of attack of the wing, the DF relies on the lift generated by the front wing. When you get slow over the numbers and want to flare there is no lift left to raise the front wing. PLOP, on you go. This has broken more Dragonflys than I care to think about. The standard brand X driver has to overcome the flare. It can only be done if you have plenty of speed and are fairly shallow. If you have a large rate of sink as in brand X then it takes gobs of power and full back stick to arrest the sink in the DF. Been there, done that. It's not fun.

I fly the down wind leg at about 120 mph. When abeam the numbers I pull the power to idle and maintain altitude to kill speed. At about a 45 degree angle off the numbers I turn base. All the while the sink rate is about 700 fpm. The turn to final is at about 90. Once you get the nose down to land, the speed will not come off. I am over the numbers at 90, and it hits the ground at about 85. Remember that all DF airspeed indicators are suspect until proven guilty. Almost all will be proven guilty, i.e. wrong. All the above is on a runway that is 7000 ft. long.