Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Training / Qualification; Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Human Factors; Airport
We were cleared the LOC back course to MFR we flew the approach fine however; we flew it as a straight in; and looking over it now see that it is not intended to be; we were not textbook stabilized after the FAF due to the high descent angle of the approach. I had flown with Captains that flew this approach in this manner. (Please don't take that as an excuse; I'm just saying others are making the same mistake I did.) In the future I will not fly this approach as a straight in. I should have gone missed and returned on the ILS.
CRJ200 Captain reported flying the LOC DME (BACK CRS)-B as a straight in approach; descending 6;000 feet from the FAF in 9 NM. The approach is designed to be a circle to land only approach.