LACK OF GOOD COM SKILLS BTWN DC8 AND APCH CTLRS AT PHL AND LESS THAN COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF CURRENT WX WIND AND ACFT PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS ON THE PART OF ATC LED TO ADDITIONAL VECTORING; WORKLOADS AND CONFUSION.

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WHILE DSNDING TO PHL WE WERE CLRED FOR THE 'BUNTS 1 ARR.' THE ARR STATES TO 'EXPECT TO CROSS BUNTS AT 8000 FT;' WHILE APCHING BUNTS LEVEL AT 10000 FT JUST 5 MI TO BUNTS WE WERE TOLD TO CROSS BUNTS AT 8000 FT. WE INFORMED AT THAT WE WERE UNABLE; AND HIS RESPONSE WAS TO THEN CROSS AT OR BELOW 9000 FT AND CONTACT PHL APCH. WE CHANGED FREQ AND DSNDED TO CROSS BUNTS AT 9000 FT. A SHORT WHILE LATER APCH CALLED BACK IN AN ANGERED VOICE INQUIRING WHY WE HADN'T CROSSED BUNTS AT 8000 FT. WE INFORMED HIM WHAT THE PREVIOUS CTLR STATED. THERE WAS NO FURTHER RESPONSE. NOTE: AT THIS TIME WE HAD APPROX 80 KTS OF TAILWIND. THEN; WHILE BEING VECTORED FOR THE ILS RWY 27R WE WERE TOLD TO DSND TO 2100 FT AND CLRED FOR THE APCH. AT APPROX 7 MI TO THE ARPT WE WERE AT 3300 FT AND SLOWING TO CONFIGURE THE ACFT (FLAPS; GEAR; ETC) AND TURNING INTO ABOUT 40 KTS OF HEADWIND. WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WERE TOO HIGH AND IT WAS UNSAFE TO CONTINUE THE APCH. CONDITIONS WERE VFR AND WE HAD VISUAL CONTACT WITH THE RWY. HOWEVER; BEFORE I COULD INFORM ATC THAT WE HAD THE RWY IN SIGHT AND LNDG WOULD BE NORMAL; WE WERE TOLD TO BREAK OFF THE APCH AND WERE VECTORED AROUND TO THE R OF COURSE; WHICH RESULTED IN ROUGHLY A 360 DEG TURN. I CAN ONLY STATE THAT PERHAPS THE CTLR WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DC8 AND WAS SIDING WITH WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS SAFE. HOWEVER; HE MAY HAVE NOT BEEN AWARE OF THE HIGH WIND CONDITIONS THAT WERE PRESENT AT THE TIME THAT I HAD TAKEN IN ACCOUNT FOR. ALSO; I BELIEVE THE CTLR WAS ANGRY FROM THE MOMENT OF OUR FIRST CONTACT AND MAY NOT HAVE LISTENED EVEN IF I HAD A CHANCE TO REASON WITH HIM. I CAN ALSO SAY THAT ALL INSTRUCTIONS WERE COMPLIED WITH AND AT NO TIME WERE WE UNSAFE.