DrMack
Line Up and Wait
Whenever I return home (KRBD) and it's VMC, DFW TRACON always lines me up for the active before handing off to tower. When I contact tower I always say, "Executive tower, 704PA cleared for visual runway xx." They usually say, "4PA cleared to land runway xx" or to follow some VFR traffic ahead in the pattern. My question is, does the tower always expect me to fly straight in or do they ever expect that IFR traffic like me might join the pattern either at the 45 downwind or base leg? I always assumed that straight in is expected since that is usually how approach has lined me up but I'm really not sure and I'm thinking that maybe I've just been lucky with my assumption that a straight in is the expected maneuver so that's what I do.
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