Dive and Drive?

[RatherBeFlying]

Finger trouble made this a new thread rather than an addendum to the Bassersdorf thread where the a/c followed the wrong glideslope into the ground.

At the risk of being declared behind the times, my feeling is that dive and drive is harder to screw up bigtime than cooking up a glideslope, especially after a long duty day.

I can't get rid of the feeling that vertical speed was selected (perhaps by faulty and fatigued memory) to conform to the charted glideslope.

A foolproof way to set up a glideslope from FAF to VDP would be a better deal -- and less likely to hit something in the case of an MDA bust.

I suspect it could be done today with VNAV and a bunch of fancy button pushing.