Thanks for all the helpful replies. The next time I'm flying I can bore the passenger next to me with what's going on when we're about to land.
It doesn't help when I've had two bad experiences with landing. A couple of years ago with Ezy when the landing gear had apparently failed. It hadn't but the flight electronics seemed to think differently. Also the worst experience was a number of years ago with Peach (don't know if anyone remembers them) coming back from Turkey. Foggy conditions and just about to land when the pilot went to full boost to bank around. He later admitted he'd missed the runway. Whether he was joking I'm not sure, but you can guees I didn't find it too funny. But I suppose as RCNessbit so eloquently put it, I did walk away.