Super King Air 200
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25; Flight Crew Total 10000; Flight Crew Type 3500
Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Procedure; Airspace Structure
Orlando ATC [F11] kept us up too high as we approached TIX for landing and when they finally started our descent it required 2500 FPM in order to get down to start the GPS Z approach. We set up the approach and were told to expect the GPS Z but we were on radar vectors at that time. The controller first said to proceed to FATAD and we executed that fix; then he said go to CUTON; but we had already accepted FATAD and it was too late to put CUTON back in the FMS so there was some confusion but we were almost to FATAD by that time so we continued. About the time we reached FATAD we saw the airport and were cleared for the visual and to contact the tower. No safety issues were encountered. However; keeping us high so long; then giving us a rapid descent; then transferring us to another controller; who was trying to 'play catchup' and get us in a position for the approach; put all of us in a 'catchup' situation and in hindsight for our part we should have called a halt to the approach and slowed everything down. Too many controllers and airplanes in too small an airspace around Orlando.
BE20 Captain reported being held high for too long by ATC during a descent and approach into TIX.