For current A330 pilots, please.
A couple weeks ago I was a passenger on an A330 from Honolulu to Los Angeles. We arrived in the LAX area around 10:00 PM on a spectacularly clear night.
Having had LAX as my home base for some 25 years, I know the lay of the land quite well. It was apparent we were flying a Stadium Visual CVFP to 24R. (I knew it was 24R upon touchdown).
http://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1312/00...UM_VIS24LR.PDF
As you can see the Stadium CVFP encourages, but certainly does not require, using the ILS turning onto final. FARs do require using the ILS G/S (or other vertically guided IAP), though, once on final and inside the FAF.
As we passed the old Hollywood Park race track I commented to my wife that we appeared to be a bit high. Turns out we were as we touched down fairly far down then he really got on the brakes and T/Rs.
As we were taxing in the captain made a PA apologizing for the firm, noisy landing. We conceded "we were a bit high." I would have never made that PA. Everything turned out fine so leave well enough alone would be my view.
My question is about the magic on an A330, which I know nothing about. In the "old" days we would tune the ILS turning final on either CFVP for LAX. Would some other form of vertical path guidance be used on the A330 in these circumstances, such as a flight path vector symbol or such?