B767 first officer reported an unstabilized approach into egll after configuring late due to ATC req...

Narrative:

I was pilot monitoring on a flight to lhr. On approach the captain flew a very standard continuous descent approach (cda) into london with the lhr ATC director calling our speeds throughout the entire approach segment. We were told to maintain 160 kts until 4 DME to runway final. We were at flaps 15 with the gear up at 1500 AGL without landing clearance. There was another aircraft in front of us which delayed our landing clearance. Within 3 DME to landing I made the 1000 foot call and indicated no landing clearance. The captain was configuring gear down and extending the flaps etcetera between 1200-500 ft. We then received late landing clearance right about the time that the flaps were at 30 degrees and at around 500 ft AGL. The relief pilot had noticed that we were slow in configuring and prompted the captain to configuring around 1200 AGL. The landing checklist was completed and the decision was made to continue to landing as the approach was stable with airspeed; flaps correct and favorable VMC day weather at lhr. The captain asked us all if we were all ok to continue to land and we all agreed that this was acceptable since we were configured around 500 ft AGL. We debriefed the approach errors on the flight deck and all agreed to file a report due to being right at the lower limit of our SOP (500 ft). The captain handled the situation extremely professionally and we thoroughly debriefed the factors that led to the slower than normal configuration.fatigue was most certainly a factor seeing that it was [early] on our body clocks and we had just completed an eight hour flight. An additional contributing factor was the late landing clearance into lhr from the tower and our fixation on the landing traffic on final in front of us. The main reason for filing this report is the fact that fatigue and late configuration lead to us conducting a landing right at the lower limit of our SOP.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B767 First Officer reported an unstabilized approach into EGLL after configuring late due to ATC requirement to maintain 160 knots and 1500 feet to 4 DME.

Narrative: I was pilot monitoring on a flight to LHR. On approach the captain flew a very standard Continuous descent approach (CDA) into London with the LHR ATC director calling our speeds throughout the entire approach segment. We were told to maintain 160 kts until 4 DME to runway final. We were at flaps 15 with the gear up at 1500 AGL without landing clearance. There was another aircraft in front of us which delayed our landing clearance. Within 3 DME to landing I made the 1000 foot call and indicated no landing clearance. The captain was configuring gear down and extending the flaps etcetera between 1200-500 ft. We then received late landing clearance right about the time that the flaps were at 30 degrees and at around 500 ft AGL. The Relief Pilot had noticed that we were slow in configuring and prompted the captain to configuring around 1200 AGL. The landing checklist was completed and the decision was made to continue to landing as the approach was stable with airspeed; flaps correct and favorable VMC day weather at LHR. The captain asked us all if we were all ok to continue to land and we all agreed that this was acceptable since we were configured around 500 ft AGL. We debriefed the approach errors on the flight deck and all agreed to file a report due to being right at the lower limit of our SOP (500 ft). The captain handled the situation extremely professionally and we thoroughly debriefed the factors that led to the slower than normal configuration.Fatigue was most certainly a factor seeing that it was [early] on our body clocks and we had just completed an eight hour flight. An additional contributing factor was the late landing clearance into LHR from the tower and our fixation on the landing traffic on final in front of us. The main reason for filing this report is the fact that fatigue and late configuration lead to us conducting a landing right at the lower limit of our SOP.

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Attributes
ACN	1439730
Time
Date	201704
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	EGLL.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B767 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 45 Flight Crew Type 513
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

B767 first officer reported an unstabilized approach into egll after configuring late due to ATC requirement to maintain 160 knots and 1500 feet to 4 DME.