Having sat as a third pilot and watched two highly skilled guys bust the 500ft gate because of ATC induced overload I certainly don't buy the "It'll never happen to me" ideology. Perhaps Alpagueur only flies diddy jets to places he's familiar with and with large performance margins. Once you fly something very big, very heavy and with less room for error the importance of a more conservative gate becomes apparent. I've flown to both 500 and 1000 foot gates. When I was young, foolish and knew the aircraft inside out I thought raising the gate to 1000 was bonkers. Now I'm older and wiser I realise I'm not as good as I thought I was and prefer to be stable at 1000. I don't want to see gusto and panache in the flight deck because invariably the guys who think they are displaying it are the unpredictable SOP cowboys who are hard work. If you want panache wear a fetching cravat, dont fool yourself that it's a high energy approach where you just stabilise at 500 ft.