Larry Dighera wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:03:15 -0000, Jim Logajan
wrote in :

Your citation of AC90-66A [1] appears to
clearly indicate that the FAA prefers that IFR pilots report their
positions by transmitting their distance from uncontrolled airports
when landing at same:

How do you resolve that conclusion with the third paragraph from the
end below:
....
AC 90-42F Traffic Advisory Practices at Airports without Operating
Control Towers
....
11. EXAMPLES OF SELF-ANNOUNCE PHRASEOLOGIES.
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(3) Practice Instrument Approach:
STRAWN TRAFFIC, CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR THREE QUEBEC (NAME - FINAL
APPROACH FIX) INBOUND DESCENDING THROUGH (ALTITUDE) PRACTICE
(TYPE) APPROACH RUNWAY THREE FIVE STRAWN.

To paraphrase Walt Whitman:
It is the FAA. It is large, it contains multitudes. It contradicts itself.



"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I
contain multitudes)."
--Walt Whitman, Song of Myself