Roy Smith wrote:

When you reach the MAP after D&D, you're stable in three axes. How would
you rather be when looking for the runway?

When you reach the MAP after following a glide slope, you should also
be stable in three axes (heading, pitch, and bank should all be
constant).Â*Â*EvenÂ*better,Â*ifÂ*youÂ*seeÂ*theÂ*ru nway,Â*youÂ*canÂ*continueÂ*to
hold that attitude down to the surface.

If anything, the slight nose-down pitch attitude should make it easier
to see the runway, compared to having to search for it over the nose
in level flight after a dive-and-drive.

Further, this is still - unless I'm misinterpreting something here - the
same situation as that of a precision approach.

The cited article on AVWeb makes a big deal of the runway not being right on
the nose for a nonprecision approach. However, the runway is often not
right on the nose for a precision approach. It depends upon the wind.

A review of the approach along with an awareness of the heading should be a
pretty good indication of the direction in which one's head should turn.

- Andrew