I walk over Waterloo bridge every morning and evening and like to watch them all turning on to the ILS (knocked a few people over, not watching where I'm going
), they seem to put gear down at about 6 miles out....
I've seen the odd abnormal vector onto the ILS, a BA 757 came screaming in from the north once and almost did a wing-over with gear and flaps going down to get on the ILS and slow down, good to see Nigel letting his hair down a bit.
SimonHK