On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:32:19 GMT, Bill Zaleski
wrote in
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You wait till 5 miles to start listening to unicom in a Citation that
is going fast, by your admission? Does it have 2 coms? Does it have a
two man crew? I am listening to Unicom way before ATC lets me go, and
that is in a 100 KT spamcan and single pilot.

Right. Just as one monitors ATIS when approaching a controlled field.
Or when approaching a Class C field, a pilot wants to tell ATC he has
information Gulf before he enters its airspace, so s/he monitors the
ATIS more than 20 miles out.