WRT to your post 48 being some sort of silver bullet, I personally would not be in a single engine IFR turbine aircraft operating in low capacity RPT, in IMC, descending through 4,000ft at circa 20nm from the aerodrome.
You're right, better option would be to delay descent until 10 or so miles and blow out the passengers eardrums. What's that got to do with a silver bullet? I'm told that operators up that way fly piston singles at 500ft over water in marginal VMC... Is it illegal? No.
Moving on.