A319 flight crew reported flying an unstabilized approach to landing.

Attributes
ACN	1283142
Time
Date	201507
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	CLE.Airport
State Reference	OH
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A319
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 173 Flight Crew Type 9767
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 178 Flight Crew Type 265
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Speed All Types Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

Narrative:

While on a VMC approach to runway 24 right in cleveland; I was above the glidepath and correcting using flaps then speedbrakes and finally gear. While on the dogleg to that runway; first officer properly asked if I should extend the gear to which I replied not yet. I continued to use the speedbrakes and to extend flaps to position two then extended the landing gear yet still had to maneuver right and left of the centerline course to lose additional altitude in an attempt to get back on profile. By about 1000 feet AGL; the aircraft was back on the centerline and in landing configuration with final flaps three set. Because I was still high on the glidepath I was still using the speedbrakes when I noticed that we were at approximately 700 ft AGL. I would estimate the maximum airspeed to have been V approach speed +15 knots at that point. Thereafter; speed brakes were retracted and the approach continued. We then received several audio call outs of descent rate between approximately 500-300 ft AGL. I corrected the descent rate and continued to an uneventful landing on a 9000 foot runway. I am not certain where our touchdown was; but it was probably close to the end of the 3000 foot touchdown zone or potentially just outside of it. We turned off on taxiway tango which was the second taxiway from the end of runway 24 right.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A319 flight crew reported flying an unstabilized approach to landing.

Narrative: While on a VMC approach to runway 24 right in Cleveland; I was above the glidepath and correcting using flaps then speedbrakes and finally gear. While on the dogleg to that runway; first officer properly asked if I should extend the gear to which I replied not yet. I continued to use the speedbrakes and to extend flaps to position two then extended the landing gear yet still had to maneuver right and left of the centerline course to lose additional altitude in an attempt to get back on profile. By about 1000 feet AGL; the aircraft was back on the centerline and in landing configuration with final flaps three set. Because I was still high on the glidepath I was still using the speedbrakes when I noticed that we were at approximately 700 FT AGL. I would estimate the maximum airspeed to have been V approach speed +15 knots at that point. Thereafter; speed brakes were retracted and the approach continued. We then received several audio call outs of descent rate between approximately 500-300 FT AGL. I corrected the descent rate and continued to an uneventful landing on a 9000 foot runway. I am not certain where our touchdown was; but it was probably close to the end of the 3000 foot touchdown zone or potentially just outside of it. We turned off on taxiway tango which was the second taxiway from the end of runway 24 right.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.