Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Engineer
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200; Flight Crew Total 15000; Flight Crew Type 6000
Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation - Speed All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Flight Crew Returned To Clearance
Human Factors; Procedure
On Approach to ORF; aircraft slowed to 180 so that aircraft could get configured for approach and landing into ORF. A few miles from OM controller asked aircrafts airspeed. Crew responded 180 Knots. Controller seemed annoyed and instructed crew to maintain 180; which they did to the outer marker as ordered by ATC.If the aircraft had maintained the maximum speed of 250 to the outer marker; they would have been unable to safely configure the aircraft for landing and would have put the passengers and crew at risk. Moreover; they would have been operating the aircraft in a reckless manner which is not only immoral but illegal as well.
Pilot reported of slowing the aircraft below controllers requested speed. Controller got mad. Pilot reported they needed to slow to get the aircraft configured to land.