Thanks to all & yes, you did understand me correctly cossack, I was not trying to buck the system.
The answer here seems to be to continue doing what we have always been doing. Maintain an awareness of traffic around you and adjust your normal deceleration, if required, subject to the urgency of the situation/controller's clearance. This tends to work great in the more "sophisticated" ATC environments, however, one's situational awareness can easily be shattered when instructed by one controller to maintain high speed only to be given an 80/100 kt speed reduction and delaying vectoring by the next guy! I can think of certain Far East airfields who tend to do that, I would have thought that an earlier management of descent/approach speeds would make life a lot easier for all concerned!
By the way 375ml, where does your 1.27kts/sec come from?
