"Roy Smith" wrote in message =
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I had one of those the other day.
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We were coming back into HPN in a Bonanza. We were a little late so =
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had the speed up in our descent, and were indicating about 200 MPH =
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KIAS, more or less). We were VFR, on about a 15 mile final, when NY=20
Aproach told us to stay off the localizer because he had a DC-9 behind =

us on the ILS who was number 1 for the airport. Yeah right.
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So we skootched a bit over to the left and kept chugging along. The=20
controller kept calling out the DC-9 traffic at 5 O'Clock, but we =
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saw him. Eventually, we were down to about 5 miles out, still keeping =

pace with the DC-9 (and still not having him in sight) when the=20
controller gave up and had us to a 360 to let him pass.
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What ever happened to first come, first served? :-)

If the DC-9 was already number 1 for the airport when you checked in,
that sounds like "first come, first served" to me, Roy. :-)

I'll bet you'll reduce your own speed the next time you're in that =
situation.
The DC-9 surely was already slowing toward the 200-kt speed limit.
Too bad the controller didn't call out the relative speeds earlier to =
you.
---JRC---