Another instructor advises to be established at circuit height three miles before joining upwind.
That sounds like a 1,000 ft 3 mile final where you don't descend.
I don't like it. Someone in front of you could go a go-around and come up from underneath you. No dramas you say, just go slightly to the right of centre-line, however at places like YTDN you can't, because that could very well be the PJE side where you aren't meant to be