Setting Up The Smalltown Arrival

摘要

1. Get the ATIS/AWOS as soon as you can. Visualize the runway in use, the direction from which you'll approach the airport and how you'll enter the traffic pattern. 2. Tune the CTAF soon, also. Listen for traffic announcements, runway in use and pattern direction. If no one is on the frequency, don't make the mistake of thinking no one's around. 3. Punch off the autopilot early and hand-fly the "arrival." You'll be that much farther ahead of the airplane and can react faster to any unanticipated traffic conflicts. 4. You are carrying a current sectional or WAC chart for the destination, aren't you?