Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 170; Flight Crew Total 5294; Flight Crew Type 2399
Human-Machine Interface; Distraction; Other / Unknown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Company Policy; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
The First Officer was flying a visual approach to ZZZ Runway XXR with right traffic from ZZZZZ3 arrival. Radar vector to final; cleared to 3;000 feet from 4;000 feet and cleared the visual. First Officer was in vertical speed and I set 3;000 feet in the MCP window. He armed approach mode and captured the localizer. The aircraft leveled at 3;000 feet and did not capture the glide slope as we were too high. Gear was down; flaps 20 and speed was 163. First Officer disconnected the autopilot and dove down to capture the glide slope. I suggested speed brakes; which he used to get down. This rapid descent caused the Tower to issue an altitude warning. I then became very busy stowing speed brakes; landing flaps; checklists; and verifying stable approach parameters. We never did the 1;000 feet call for set M/A altitude and cleared to land check (which we were). The event; although satisfying the stable approach parameters; was highly irregular and borderline go-around scenario. The debrief included mostly what went wrong and why. We discussed and I noted the main errors. The First Officer said not flying for 7 months was the issue.
Air carrier Captain reported an unstabilized approach. The First Officer's lack of recent flying was cited as a contributing factor.