with those high dives with spool ups and GS intercepts at 500 feet
Can't say I like that sort of strategy .. and it would have had any of us hung, drawn and quartered at the Monday morning tea and bikkies meeting .. without the tea and bikkies.
Our preferred technique to get down quickly was to slow up at height, gear down, boards up on the jets (with due regard to any flap limitations), flaps to approach (with regard to the normal level restrictions on flap), idle thrust .. and then vary the descent profile with IAS.
Spin up routinely 1500ft on slope and speed in our operation.
.. and, if it turned to custard on the way down, we were never too proud to ask for an orbit although that was not often if the cognitive processes were on the ball.