Hi all,
Interesting thread, I am now in the Middle East and use speed control on final approach regularly. With the variety of aircraft we have operating, all seem to want to do different things (even though it's the same company a lot of the time). Sometimes, 320s if not sped are doing 220kts at intercept (11nm), sometimes they are back at 140kts 15nm out.
Generally, 160kt to 5nm works here - occasionally they try and get away with different - those who do ask though sometimes request 160kt to 6nm in order to help stabalise for the approach.
I'm fortunate enough to have good quality tower controllers upstairs who more often than not will spot any discrepancies in speed and sort them out
-HD-