Give me a break
TO the guy that made the comment about flying like an F15. Dude you would have to be doing over 500kts to even be considered, and more like 300AGL. What a joke, do you configure like 30 miles out from the airport too? I am so sick of all these wussies afraid to fly the plane at the barber pole. Im a 737 guy, so don't know much about Airbus, but give me a break. The best way to save fuel would be a flight to the absolute minimum distance required to descend, and then an idle thrust descent at max forward speed all the way to final. But ofcourse everyone is afraid of doing over 300kts.
I used to come in at 370KIAS on the Falcon 2000EASy into Delhi, intercept the loc from 8 miles out, gear first, then flaps and spbrk ofcourse. Save time, and was fun. Oh i forgot, flying isnt supposed to be fun, we have rules!!!