Five mile final

[Josh Cox]

It's not really that hard, is it?

Can't we all just get along ?.

When a highish performance aircraft in descending into a circuit, the estimate is exactly that, remember they are deccelerating from say 250+ knots to 120, this will effect their estimate considerably, most crews will add a minute or two to the initial estimate, because this will be closer to actual.

Why is everyone doing straight in approaches ?,

Because ICAO, most CP's I'd reckon, and Jepp/ASA also believe runway aligned and constant profile approaches are safer.

When ever possible puting the runway in the windsceen IMHO provides added safety and economy.

If you are in the circuit and wish to be difficult, say no, do not accomodate the arriving aircraft, I believe this to be bad airmanship and I am pretty certain it will bite you in the bum at some stage.