On the drop it is not unlike a bird settling into decoys outside the spread. Though faster, as ducks don't free fall when they land.
I agree, with the exception of woodies down here. When they are coming into a little beaver pond in the morning they aren't free falling, they are
powering down. I've never seen something that can "come in hot" like a woodie. You are much better off if they want to land 25 yards from you than if they want to land right where you are. They make teal look like novices. They remind me of a fighter jet making a hot carrier landing and catching the cable.
If a chandelle is the second bird of a true pair, and I have to shoot it coming down, I have learned to intercept it's path, coming from wherever I broke the first bird, and intercept it's path at the proper amount of lead ahead of it. I am really successful on them, shooting them like that. I never shoot a falling chandelle anymore by following the line and pulling away. When I changed my method on them my hit ratio on them skyrocketed. I love chandelles, now, hate rabbits. Too unpredictable.
SRH
