"Jim Baker" wrote in message
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That's it. No more discussion from me on such a trivial point. I want to
do it, it doesn't violate anything, it makes me feel that things are
safer,

I think that is all just fine as a practice. A good bit of the discussion
in this thread, however, suggested that such a repeat call to ATC when
beginning a delayed PD descent was *required* -- it is not required, but
yes, it is acceptable practice if you prefer to do things that way.

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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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