Intruder, it's a Eurothing, for noise abatement. How to plan your TOD is irrelevant for the question.
Think of it as extending the ILS 20-30 nm, that you start out with 250 knots, and you have to configure without a level segment. That was what Superpilot was asking about
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We fly heavy A321s which are pain to go down and slow down. This means we often level off in order to slow down enough to get the flaps out. Although idle when slowing down (and thus not as noisy as some might think), some airport stats don't give a damn and simply want to see what they want to see, a CDA all the way down.