Maui said:
The thrust of a lot of people in this forum is that it CANNOT be done. Poppycock. For one or more reasons, you do not WISH to do it
Maui, in a 319 in can't be done. I don't know how to say what I have previously said in a different way so that you might understand it, but in essence there is too much speed to lose in a tiny distance. The SOPs dicatate that you don't even attempt it, because it won't work, not because we're a bunch of low hour small balled button pushers.
I bow out of this, on the basis that I have passed on all I can to the atcos, and it seems that some people can't understand that on some aircraft types (like the one I used to fly) 160 to 4 was easily possible, and on other types it is impossible when you have a mandatory 1000' stable requirement.