Matt Whiting ) wrote:

Instead, the controller cleared me to MAPOE.

While practicing GPS approaches across NY state, I have found that
controllers will often clear me to the IAF aligned with the final
approach course of the approach. I am guessing that years of handing
out ILS approaches have made them accustomed to this.

When this happens, I request the IAF closest to my position that
prevents me from having to do a PT. I have yet to be denied this
request.

In your case, you could have responded to the controller's clearance
with a request the CIMAN IAF. Of course, this is a moot point if you
really needed to practice a PT, but had you been by yourself in the
soup, why not make the approach as easy as possible?


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Peter