Lovely story. But I fear that light aircraft are going to be more and more sqeezed out of even relatively small provincial airports now that Eazy and Ryanair are using them, if light aircraft want 5 miles behind at start of approach and then fly at 100Kts, let alone a 70kts normal.
If you want popularity, then, as a previous poster said, cut in tight, but at a steep light aircraft slope of not less than 5 degrees, to a touch down point beyond its nose down point (not the mains) of the heavy ahead.
You wont feel any wake, nor give much delay to anything else coming. The last time I did this was at Exeter, behind a 757, known for high wake vortex. I was on very short final as he turned off at the far end, and it was sublimely smooth.
Mike.