If the floor is pretty flat then you should only need to skim the back of the tile with the flat edge of your trowel, it is only so that the 2 wet surfaces make contact and make 1 solid bed of adhesive. If you lay the tile down and it ia slightly low than you can lift it up and apply more but it is very important not to leave and voids.
Just bumping some threads in the underfloor heating forum. You can now find and search for both electric underfloor heating and water underfloor heating threads. By the way, if you feel some of the threads you want to be seen at the top of the forum need to be bumped back, for the next month or so from now, feel free to do that. Although it's not usually something we allow, whilst we're going through this process of changing over forum software, we see the need for this to happen.