Thanks Don, the issue has been discussed earlier too and most were of the opinion that the pilots should be allowed to select the configuration they are comfortable with instead of being forced to use Flaps 3 for all landings. I am not comfortable when a pilot with 500 hrs TT is landing a 321 at max landing weight on a shortish runway with Flaps 3. As such your pitch angle is around 5 deg during stable approach, which gives very limited margin during flare for mistakes/inexperience.