Originally Posted by av8rmike

Disregarding this particular incident, I see an institutional mentality that the 'target' to shoot for to be stable is 1,000' IMC and 500' VMC. From the perspective of my airplane that has very low approach speeds and a difference of up to 60kts between intermediate and final approach speeds, the time difference between being stable at 1K and at 500' feet is about 15 seconds. We fly hours and hours and then paint ourselves in a corner over 15 seconds? Just dumb.