Originally Posted by
Del Prado
I'd say over 30% of aircraft inbound to gatwick reduce speed below 160kts outside 4dme. The worst offenders in my experience are BA 735s, A330s and Easyjet A319s. I wonder if there's been a change in Easyjet SOPs or an increase in training as Easyjet used to be a lot better?
I'll let NoD offer an answer from here:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...29#post2962429
At easy, the best way to achieve the mandatory stable by 1000' is to fly 160 to 5.0 (nearer 6.0 in still air/slight tail), then cut the thrust by selecting managed speed and putting the gear down.
So do you want
all of us to say "it will be 160 to 5/6" on receipt of the instruction? As it stands, the attitude in the flight deck is that we will do our best to accommodate your speed requests, but ultimately we will fly the speeds that we feel are safe and meet our stable approach criteria.