Very interesting reading this debate and it highlights an area of dificulty I had when comming into the Airline environment from GA where NPA's are the rule rather than the exeption...On a dark night in winter flying freight on my own into some god foresaken place in the middle of nowhere I got into the habit of planning a constant rate decent to the MDA..it made life a lot easier I assure you and I felt no need to prove I could fly to within 50 ft of any intermeadiate level.
I know from previous posts that 411A and 2daddies are very experienced training pilots on heavy aircraft..with two very different opinions about how the NPA should be carried out..but just imagine how hard it is on a new FO when he flies captains of differing opinions and you get the "What are you doing" when all you are doing is what the other guy wanted.
Now who am I flying with today...