Originally Posted by
1201alarm
Another big pro F3 is practice: many abnormals require a F3 landing, so you want to be current and skilled in them, you want to be used to the higher pitch picture when going visual, sounds pretty bad to me in the stress of an abnormal to fly the bird the first time in F3. That is why I try to make regular F3 landings, when appropriate according to the criteria above..
Heard that line trotted out before. It's tosh, quite frankly. If you're doing a CONF3 approach due to ECAM, by definition it won't be a "normal" CONF3 approach. The approach speed will be higher due to a Vref correction so the "picture" won't look the same as in a normal CONF3 approach anyway, you'll probably be dealing with other configuration issues which mean the handling won't be the same as in normal ops etc.