He's one of us. It's okay. He knows what he is talking about.

Truth is, he likes strip clubs too.

Most US ATCO's handle us with kid gloves when it comes to radar vectoring to final. IAH, DFW, SEA, LAX, IAD... we always get extra separation cause guys are usually high and fast. Most EK pilots I fly with when going to the states try and fly a CDA. It just doesn't work in the US and we usually lose our spot or get forced down with an expedite clearance.

When it's my leg in, I'll brief why I'm going to be low on descent profile and it works out perfectly for the base turn. You couldn't fly like that at most of the other places we fly, so muscle memory gets the best of our pilots. They try to stay on profile in the states like they would in Gatwick. Chicago will be no different and Kap is right. We are gonna annoy $h!t out of the ORD approach controllers with our energy management and stabilization requirements.