Established on the approach - Checkride question

"endre" wrote in message
om...

I did my instrument checkride the other day and passed...

Question for this group.

I was being radar vectored for the SHN NDB approach. I was cleared in
the following way: Cessna 61786 14 miles from NDB descend and maintain
2000 until established.


That was all of it? There's no approach clearance there.



The problem: I was outside the 10 mile ring on the plate, established
on the inbound course, no way to tell when I would be inside 10 mile.
However, I would need to descend to 1400 before the NDB to have a
chance to descend to MDA of 900.

What would you all do?


If what's above is a verbatim quote of the instruction received, I'd request
an approach clearance.

I'm not sure what your concern is. The ten mile ring means nothing with
regard to where you can begin your descent.