To CABUS, post #3.
Just a reminder that in A-320, speedbrakes are (not PROhibited, but) INhibited in Full Flaps, meaning, you can pull the speedbrake handle back, but the panels will stay flush with the wing!
To Antonilo:
If it is during a visual approach, consider the following possibilities:
Extend downwind a bit,
Make the turn to final a bit wide, so you overshoot finals a bit, basically the S-turn that you make gives you some extra ground distance,
Extend the gear earlier (out of normal sequence),
Keep speedbrakes out while deploying flaps (as stated earlier, they will not deploy with Full Flaps).
All those actions should be taken IN TIME, discovering that you are too high and too fast at 3 miles final means that you screwed up earlier in the approach and you should make a go-around.
Consider this: 300 ft per mile is the norm (320 ft to be precise), so 30 nm to go at 10.000 is normal, 20 nm remaining at 10.000 ft can be handled.
The same relative error, 1.500 ft at 3 miles, instead of the required 1.000 ft at 3 miles, cannot be corrected anymore.
(Edited for a typo)
Last edited by EMIT; 6th Oct 2008 at 20:18.