Beaver,
Like Vertigo I know exactly who you are talking about, the chap concerned does the odd day duty with us.
Shouldn't be a problem to have a quiet word, but then I think he also retires sometime in the not too distant future.
410,
Good stuff. If you're assigned 220kts off the stack but clean is a bit higher than that, please say something as doing 230kts on intermediate approach will most definitely not be a problem.
At the other big airport a bit north of Gatwick where I also play, we get a lot of MD80's, usually SAS, who seem to have a min clean speed of just above 220kts. Rather than specify a speed I'll just say to them "fly at minimum clean" knowing it will be in the 220-230ish kts range. Except in extreme wind conditions this is not a problem.
As for speed reductions after that, then it gets a bit trickier to allow different speeds for different aircraft. At that point we're trying to maintain a consistent gap between traffic, which can often be at the absolute minimum separation allowed, and so it is pretty important that everyone is doing exactly the same speed.
We try to aim for 220ish off the stack, 180kts in the base leg area and 160kts on final at the point the required separation is established.
If you are slowed to 180kts whilst still a fair way from turning base, it will likely either be because the upper winds are very strong and we need to get your groundspeed to a minimum in order to have a fighting chance of doing some accurate vectoring onto final. Or it's because we've taken too many off the stacks and we need to slow everyone down so that we don't run out of our airspace. I'm sure if any EGLL operators are reading this they'll recognise being slowed down early whilst downwind for 09L but still getting a 20 mile final. Sorry about that
But we're nothing if not flexible, well most of us anyway, so if you do want to do something different, again please just ask.
WF.