Never flown a widebody. Is 180kt to 5nm incompatible with a stabilised approach?
It would depend on a lot of things: Vref, wind, terrain, icing, density altitude, etc.
I can do 160/4 in the 777-200 and 170/5 in the 777-300 in benign conditions without too much drama at average weights but 180/5 would probably need a fair amount of speedbrake and early gear/flap deployment. Don’t know about the 747 but probably more difficult.
Anyway, the whole idea of Stabilised Approaches is that you have freed up capacity to monitor for external/internal issues, such as deviations, windshear, other traffic and so on. Being rushed in on a high-workload, last-minute will-we-won’t-we approach is not a great idea. Smacks of “are we up here because you’re down there or are you down there because we’re up here...?”
