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The Flight safety foundation has done a tremendous amount of work on the CFIT problem and have identified the "dive and drive" technique as contributing to the high risk of NPAs. They recommend a constant rate of descent, even if it lessens the chances of getting in. The FSF is, I believe, US based, so this is not just a European thing. Both you and the FAA need to roll with the times here. If you are interested take a look at
www.flightsafety.org for plenty of excellent research into CFIT and Approach and landing accidents. Look for the flightsafety digest from a couple of years back, it is a .pdf download.