Because I don't consider floating 300-500 feet to be "minimal float".
Take a look at how
Embry-Riddle presents the short-field approach and landing. They clearly show that the plane flies a direct glide path down to a touchdown point with zero floating. Their verbal instructions in that video even tell you to fly it that way, by progressively pulling power and pitching up so as to maintain a constant glidepath down to your touchdown point. They explicitly contrasted it with a normal approach and landing which shows the plane floating during the roundout and flare and imply to NOT do it the same way as a normal landing. Then I noticed that the AFH presents a short-field in the same way as Embry-Riddle does, but I didn't realize that the AFH is only showing you the approach segment but not the landing segment. On top of that I noticed that the ACS specifically mentions "minimal float".
I went up with my instructor and one time we did a short-field approach and landing directly down to a touchdown point maintaining a constant glide path with with almost zero float (like in the Embry-Riddle video) and I thought that's how it should be done.
However I began to ask questions because the procedure for a short-field approach and landing in the POH specifies doing it differently and it was my impression that the POH trumps the ACS and AFH. Since doing the procedure according to the POH causes me to float about 300-400 feet with an approach speed of 61 knots, I began to get confused as to what the hell is going on. I watched more videos about it and some of them mentioned using an aiming point which I thought that was something used for a normal landing only. But no those videos were talking about it in association with a short-field approach and landing, which I thought according to Embry-Riddle and the AFH the aiming point WAS the touchdown point, which confused me more. To be honest I am still not clear on what is officially the correct technique. The correct techniqe seems to further vary based on whether you are doing a short-field on a practical test vs a short-field in the real world.
Whenever I brought these question up with my instructor he just kept telling me that it doesn't really matter how I do it and to just make sure I hit my spot and do my after touchdown procedure (flaps, brakes, elevator, aileron). I guess ultimately he is right.
Do you agree that some of this information is contradictory and at least understand why I was confused?