Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Indeed; when you normally fly into small, rural, uncontrolled airports a major metro is a nice change.
Flying a Citation II with a Vref of 102kts into the world's busiest airport is a fun challenge as a pilot; kept 150kts until a 2 mile final and STILL almost got run over by a 757 after turning off 8L.
Sounds like my adventures in a C310 going in there. At least you could do better than 180KIAS arriving, although I could take the advantage on short final speed, 170-180 until 2-3mile final. One good thing the props do!