A320
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 171; Flight Crew Type 497
Situational Awareness
Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach; Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Aircraft; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors; Procedure
SFO FMS visual 28R.  ATC asked that we slow down and maintain visual with a heavy aircraft on 28L.  Our aircraft and the 777 are paired up for the approach.  The winds were approximately 250/10 kts; a quartering headwind.  Below 1;000 feet; I started to encounter the wake vortices's from the 777.  I decided to adjust my approach angle and fly a dot high to avoid these vortices's.  That helped.  I continued the approach relying on the VASI for guidance.  To land in the touchdown zone; my descent rate felt higher than normal and may have exceeded 1;200 FPM.
A320 Captain reported an unstabilized approach resulted from a higher than normal approach in an effort to avoid wake turbulence.