Ahhhm, the beauty of PPRuNe. No matter what you post, you'll get a steady flow of replies from people who love to let you know that they think they are a better pilot than you are. "250kts to 14DME? I do it reading the paper". "220kts at 20 DME? You must be a brain dead cadet". "I fly at Mach 5.0 at the FAF and NEVER been unstable". Love it.
JToledo, I was mostly trying to explain how we try generally look at approaches. Of course, in real life, we rarely do 220 at 20 NM on the localiser. It's more likely to be seen with 20 NM to go on the downwind. But the training department have been very keen, and very successful, at minimising unstable approaches while yet flying a continuous descent approach (CDA). The gates given in my first post are guidelines given to new entrants. They help newbies flying that stable CDA. With time on type, most of us are obviously less conservative. I just wanted you to know where we're coming from.
To all the flying gods out there: well done. I just wish I could be like you
