CRJ. It could be hand flown, but it still takes a few seconds to get the nose to pitch over. Otherwise you tend to scare the passengers and they frown on us doing that sort of thing.
My favorite part of military flying... Passengers have no choice!
When you mentioned about 900 fpm for the descent, all I could think of was our standard 1200 fpm descents on NPAs.
Guess I would ask, why not shoot the GPS... Not scaring the pax... And go around for the ILS if need be? I know you run into the money issue then, but if your landing on a "shortish" runway, with a tailwind, and wet... The legal headwind approach sounds like a good call to me.
Actually had a controller ask about the "rides" one time. When we responded with it not being bad, he asked if we would fly in it if we were paying pax... We gave him a different answer.