Originally Posted by sailingfun

Configured and on speed at the final approach fix? How much fuel is that per year? Why the need as it had nothing to do with this incident. They were 9 miles out! I once flew with a FO going into Dakar. Hired with 2000 hours of RJ time and no PIC. Set up nicely for a visual approach on downwind flaps 5, 180 knots in a 757. At that time the requirement was to intercept final above 500 feet. Tower clears us to land. We fly 3 miles past the airport when I mention it's behind us. Tower comes back up and says Delta, I clear you to land. FO says not comfortable with tight patterns. Passing the outer marker tower says, "Delta where are you going".
We turned base at 8 miles!