Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
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I fly out of a very busy reliver airport full of jet traffic. When
asked I will keep cruise speed up to the FAF, but then all bets are
off. If ceilings are 800' or more then I've got plenty of wiggle room
and I'll keep the speed up, but if it's low, I'll fly the speed that I
want to.

This is also pretty easy to manage in a 172 because you cruise at 100
and fly the ILS at 75 and you can lose 25 knots in under 30 seconds. If
you're in something like a Bo or Mooney then you may be looking to lose
50 knots and doing so will take more planning.

Bottom line is that it's ATC's job to keep the G-V off your tail once
you're inside the approach gate.


A sure way to do that is to put you behind the G-V.

Yup. At my home field there's plenty of times I've gotten vectored
around "while we land a few jets." Cost of doing business.