Originally Posted by
good egg
Not quite sure what you mean about speed...according to the RNAV Transition Charts arrivals to RW27 185 KIAS max limit is at 6DME, admittedly on RW09 it's closer to 20nm from touchdown (but then it always was).
Yes that may be, but I mean all that low level droning/vectoring way before this we now get, out over the wind turbines in the Lower Thames Estuary/Goodwin Sands area a good 20 minutes or more before touchdown.
Flight Deck recently announced such an approach as "APPARENTLY it's the best route", with just the faintest trace of sarcasm ...