Rananim,
I hate to tell you this but un-stable approaches still remain the number one reason for FOQA exceedances. Because of this the 500' call "stable" or "not stable" is being adopted by more and more airlines. My current company certainly does it as did the company I worked at before in the US.
The company I worked at in the US was probably one the only CRJ operators where the FO could call reject on the take off. Why? Because if they were PF and experienced a PCU runaway of the elevator on take off, only they would know.
Now, neither of these stop a Captain over-ruling the FO but they'd better have a damn good reason.
Unfortunately, FO's used to be seen as Captains in training. Now, with the decrease in experience levels, they're seen as more of a liability. Shame really.
Last edited by Kenny; 18th Feb 2012 at 06:43.