Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Other / Unknown; Human-Machine Interface
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
Cleared for visual to Runway X and turned inside ZZZZZ from 4;000. I knew we were high but we had slowed and got gear out early. Squared the base to final turn outside ZZZZZ1 and continued to configure. Fully configured at 1;100; but still high on the VASI; so we decided to continue to 500 to meet stable approach criteria. Passing 500 we were on VASI and engines coming up we landed at the 1;200 mark; 8 seconds from 50 feet; and taxied in uneventfully. Upon gate arrival I pulled an approach report and noticed that we had a -1;750 vertical speed which I think happened between 2;000 and 1;000 feet. There was some ground thermal bouncing and it could have momentarily exceeded -1000 below 1;000.This was my first trip back since April and I should have given myself more room to get down and configure.Hindsight being 20/20 I think a go-around would have been a more appropriate choice; in order to give us more room to set up for the approach.
Close vectors; base to final Runway X. At 4;000 (higher than normal) we were cleared for a visual approach. PF started to configure; descend and intercept the LOC Runway X. We were configured prior to 1;000 feet however we were still a little high; reducing our airspeed with higher than normal descent rate; was tough but we continued to 500 feet. To me the aim point looked good with the airspeed and vertical speed returning to normal; with the engines spooled up. Short final to touchdown appeared normal. We crossed the threshold and touched in 8 sec; with normal rollout and taxi to the gate. When we shutdown at the gate; we pulled up the APRCH RPT and saw a max vert speed of 1700+ descent rate.Causal factors was accepting an approach clearance when we were higher than normal on base to final; while also being closer than normal to the field. This caused a higher descent rate on final; challenging our stable approach criteria. If necessary; configure early! In our specific situation; even lowering the landing gear earlier would have helped get us to 'stable approach criteria' sooner.
Air carrier flight crew reported an uneventful landing from an unstable approach instead of executing go-around per standard procedures.