Three issues:
1. Raise your concerns via
ATC management both at
West Drayton (from where Luton Approach is operated - and at
Swanwick from mid-November when London Terminal Control moves there) and with NATS at
Luton Airport. Do this either through your company channels and/or direct with the
ATC managers concerned.
2. The 'problem' of VFR flights operating outside Luton's airspace "freecalling" Luton Approach and then giving their life history on a busy IFR radio frequency should cease next year when Phase 2 of Farnborough's extended LARS comes into operation to the north of London. But it will need many of the light aircraft pilots and some of the Luton Approach controllers to change their lifelong habits and mindset (you don't often get this happening at Gatwick)!!
3. You're by no means the only pilot to complain of what is in effect, being put into a 'rushed approach' situation. The local controlled airspace geometry doesn't help the situation, neither do the ATC procedures that have you controlled by Essex Radar and shortly afterwards, Luton Approach. Take a tip - if London says
"no ATC speed restriction" stick to 250 knots by the speed limit points because this makes it easier for Essex Radar and Luton Approach to give you a satisfactory vector onto the ILS especially when landing on runway 26.
