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At 17 miles you were not within a published segment of the approach. ATC
was
required to give you an altitude to maintain and which to cross HAIGS. A
proper clearance would have been "X miles from HAIGS. Cross HAIGS at, or
above, 4,000, cleared for the ILS Runway 27 approach." The word
"established"
is inappropriate in this instance. If you did not receive such a
clearance
you were obligated to maintain 5,000 and question the clearance because
5,000
is not a reasonable altitude to cross HAIGS.

REF: ATC Handbook 7110.65P, Paragraph 4-8-1 b.2., Example for Aircraft 2
under
that subparagraph.


That example is of an unpublished direct route. At the time he was cleared
for the approach he was on a published route.