Originally Posted by
av8rmike
No, never. So being at Vapp at 3.2nm from touchdown causes panic in the ATC Tower? Sounds like a "them" problem and not an "us" problem.
Why? Do you accept a lot of "180 or greater until 3nm" requests?
Had that problem in IAD. First they assigned 250 when I was 12nm out. Then at 10nm they gave me 170. Like you, I aim to be stabilized by 1,000 and was. On 1nm final tower tells me to speed up. The captain politely tells him to stuff it and the tower complains that we went back to final approach speed 3 miles out! I couldn't care less. I fly by the book and could care less if that makes ATC slow down traffic behind me.