B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 230; Flight Crew Type 2803
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure; Human Factors
Clear VFR day into SAN. Following Aircraft Y to RWY 27; encountered wake turbulence due to close ATC sequencing for arriving/departing traffic. Flew above Aircraft X's flight path to avoid wake turbulence which required a higher rate of descent on our visual approach to RWY 27.
After the leading Aircraft Y landed; another aircraft taxied out and was given takeoff clearance while we were on short final. While higher than we would like; both automation and wake from the proceeding aircraft led us to the position we found ourselves. As Pilot Monitoring my attention and callouts focused on relaying airspeed and V/S info which was within 10 knots of target and at the outer limit of acceptable vertical speed. Maybe due to our combined 30 years on the 757 we felt comfortable in our position even after quickly discussing the potential of a possible go-around on short final.
B757 flight crew reported an unstabilized approach resulted when they flew high on the glide slope to avoid wake turbulence from the preceding B737 on approach into SAN.