Originally Posted by
vilas
Short finals is very vague. The airline may be too strict about Stabilized approach by 1000ft. so one can push it up 1500. Three thousand is way too much. I don't know how the airline can accept that.
Vilas,
There was a reason why "short final" was in inverted commas.
It was/is not a matter of the airline accepting,
but requiring, the aircraft be in the landing configuration, checks complete, at approx. 10nm/3000 agl.
Dan in the previous post "gets it".
Tootle pip!!