Originally Posted by joepilot50

I’ve seen more gear down flaps 15 at 6000’ from new hires than senior captains when I was an FO.

But I blame the training department more than them. They get programmed to do that in the sim world in a controlled environment where they are in a position where glidepath at roughly 1 dot to drop the gear and go flaps 15 makes sense. Or discouraged to use or not shown flaps 10 is usually more than enough to hold 170-180 knots while descending down on the path when flaps 5 can’t hold it so they drop the gear and flaps 15 it instead at 5000’.