Smooth, I'm not prepared to get into a pi$$ing contest with you but other than me voicing a personal opinion about a documented event by the NTSB, why exactly do you have the $hits with what I wrote?

Any of us from a brand, spanking new PPL up to a 20000 hour vet know full well that it's very easy to make mistakes. Hopefully our training and to a certain extent our common sense limit the amount by which we repeat these mistakes but we're only human and we do make them. However, there are certain no-no's that are set in stone; descending to precision approach minimums using non-precision guidance is one of them. At 200' above the ground in a jet-engined aircraft, there isn't a lot of room to correct any mistake.

Now I'll grant you that there are occasions where your choices might be severly limited and you might be forgiven for doing this; min fuel and no suitable alternate due to wx or the aircraft is on fire but for any of us to believe that this is an acceptable practice in normal day to day ops, is un-acceptable.

We pi$$ and moan that the legacy pilots don't take regional pilots seriously and then this kind of stuff happens. I'd be amazed if descending to ILS mins without a glideslope would be acceptable at a major carrier.

So as far as I'm concerned, my personal opinion is that that particular event within the whole chain of events, was an idiot thing to do.