Some schools of IFR thought advocate the calculation and use of a stabilized, constant-rate descent from the final approach fix to the visual descent point (VDP), followed by a continued descent to the runway threshold on a non-precision approach. Fine, but...oh hell, color me Neanderthal, I'm still a fan of the dive-and-drive method. There, I said it. I can hear the constant-descent advocates scream: "Gather the outdated approach plates and we'll burn this heretic at the stake!" I submit for your consideration that the dive-and-drive method actually creates a more stabilized approach at the critical few moments of the approach during the transition from instruments to a visual approach, if, indeed, there is one. I'll leave it entirely up to you to decide what's safe for your ops, but this is my take on the matter.
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