This is more of a real world question (although it is contrasted against what I do in FSX):
I am training in a Cherokee 160 (140 conversion) and when we are on final approach, my instructor likes me descending at 500 feet per minute, speed at 80 mph, and the important part, in a nose-down attitude (two notches of flaps). In his words: "nose pointing towards the runway!" Mind you, he is a CFII with 6,000 hours of dual instruction, and he's in some of Rod Machado's advertisements in AOPA Pilot, so it's not like I'm assuming he's wrong, but I'm just curious about the nose-down attitude part, because it seems to me in FSX I'm in the "flare attitude" all the way down on final, i.e. nose up as opposed to down. The way he has me do it is the nose-down attitude until power off a few feet above the runway, then pull back on the yoke to start the flare and just hold the airplane off the runway and let it settle down itself. So there's a transition from the nose-down attitude to the flare for landing.
Hopefully that made sense. Any thoughts would be appreciated!