I have to say, that was the first thoughts i had myself. How can a company have a set of SOPs that is against its own FCOM? What kind of audit did they have that they didn't notice something as dangerous as not checking a vertical profile on a non precision approach?
If they were really trained that way, the fault does not lie with the chaps in the front row, although i would have thought that basic airmanship is more common on the north american continent.