Description

As pilots, most of us are quite pleased when Air Traffic Service (ATS) offers a direct routing, advises us to "maintain best forward speed", tells us "you are number one for the airport", or provides vectors that reduce total track distance. However, during the approach phase, these actions can potentially lead to being left too high and/or too fast and, consequently, result in an unstable approach, the necessity to capture the glideslope from above, or the need to abandon the approach and conduct a go around.