I work for JMC, It's an SOP that you get used to, in fact it can be quite fun to see how close you can get to the 250/ <10, it makes for a much safer app. and after all it safety thats the name of the game, I seem to remember a gulf air A320 coming to grief not so long ago, after he came hurtling into the circuit fast & high, whilst i'm not saying that this was the prime cause for the accident , it may have been a contibuting factor, the more time you have the better you think and so on.
Weren't Emiates thinking of having the same Sop?
From what I gather most airlines have this rule in some form.
Another point to remember Bigrab, is that we're doing a lot of training at the moment (cause the line guys are doing all the night flts)so if you cast your mind back to when you were training i'll bet you wanted time to think!!!