Large Transport
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 209
Confusion; Situational Awareness; Workload
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance
Flight Crew Returned To Clearance
Human Factors; Procedure
This event is the second time in the last month where NorCal Final Approach into OAK ILS30 places aircraft too high for ILS intercept (arriving from north; right downwind).  The glideslope commands a descent prior to localizer intercept.  Once the aircraft is established; it becomes a struggle to get down and re-stabilize.  As an example; both times; the workload was so intense that the FAF was not verified and crosschecked.  Time and frequency congestion have limited the ability to request lower (prior to intercept).  Although both approaches met the stable criteria; I believe that tight and high vectors contribute to destabilizing an approach.
A pilot reports of being high and above the glideslope while flying into OAK airport on the ILS to runway 30. He is kept high by NorCal approach.