Originally Posted by AerocatS2A
The only approach worse than a dive and drive is a dive and drive by an out of practice pilot who normally does CDAs.
The ONLY time you do something different is if you have run out of options and are forced to bust minima, even then I think a CDA with lower min would be safer than a dive and drive.
How are you descending CDA when you reach altitude of a fix or MDA without stopping stabilized approach with GO A ROUND or level the flight until the next fix distance at that height?? ? So you cannot claim to only use that method without using Dive&drive technic, and not training Dive&drive NPA getting out of practice of Dive&Drive??? .
Stabilizing the approach in short final is fine on airliners but the intermediate and final approach must manage TRANSIENT regimes.