Sequencing choices...how do YOU like it?

[GaryGnu]

Trent,

No argument from me there re the speed prior to TOD. If you do it in selected speed on a profile for a different managed speed you are adjusting with thrust or spped brake. Not really what the beancounters (or pax apparently) want.

GD,

I hope I am not stating something way too obvious to say that no matter what method you use the more notice we get the easier it is to achieve what you want.

I know we don't have the big picture in the FD but sometimes we get the instructions too late to do much about it. If it is due to last minute changes in sequence or a pop up etc a quick mention over the radio will do the trick and pacify the personalities that tend to get agitated over such trivialities.