Justin Cyder-Belvoire;
He was instructed to maintain 180 to 4 by ATC then couldn't get configured by 500ft; fully configured by 390 RA in an empty aircraft positioning for servicing on to a 13000ft long runway with a planned exit at the end. Weather was cavok.
The management are doing him for gross professional misconduct.
Where's the sense or fairness in that?
Over-reaction to FLIDRAS/SESMA/FOQA/FDA data is as serious and ineffective (and therefore wasteful) as under-reaction, (the issue with which we are wrestling). Your question is rhetorical for most here who have some form of healthy safety culture - there is NO sense or fairness in this wasteful act (of firing) whatsoever.
Rogue pilots come along in extremely rare cases. Most of us may get caught high or fast once in a while, - we may make an assumption, (cleared direct when we thought we were going to follow the STAR routing), we may be a bit behind the airplane once in a while due tailwinds or delayed descent clearance, we may have accepted an ATC clearance which later proved difficult to comply with, etc etc.
None of this is "rogue pilot" territory; -that is what the "negligence or criminal behaviour" sections are for in any good company safety policy - it isn't for firing on a whim or a bad approach well outside the FLIDRAS and airline SOP policy. That is a crew-contact matter for the Association FDA Pilots; if that meets with a certain resistance or "chip", that is a sign that the matter may have to go further - but that is rare in our experience.
The other side of the coin on your example however is this: My airline has stated quite clearly to the FOQA team that "long landings" (outside the touchdown zone) on "13000ft runways" are not a problem, and have implied (but not stated) that "idle thrust across the fence if one has speed" is similarly not a problem...they dismiss the FOQA data.
Those habits, practised sufficiently and without intervention, may be fine when one has 13000ft on a clear day but as we all know, runways are also 6000ft and contaminated. I think we'd all agree that keeping up skills and habits gazumps fuel conservation any day. Incidently, I believe that that is the kind of thinking which "permits" crews to take liberties with an empty, placement airplane "when no one is watching". How many accidents have been caused thus?...