Two questions on VFR flight following into an uncontrolled field

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 10:25:38 -0500, "Tman" N/A wrote:

Should I just cancel advisories
proactively 10 miles or so out so that Ican focus totally on the CTAF?

That's what I usually do. Many good controllers will alert you to
targets in your destination's environment, if they can seen them, as
you end advisories.


Second question. Check out http://skyvector.com/#29-15-3-2383-2408, i was
flying into MGJ (Orange County) at 6500 from the E, getting advisories from
NY Approach. Actually the flight from the Ebrought me right over the SWF
(Stewart) Class D airspace, which has a 3000 ceiling. So I was in my VFR
descent actually right over Stewart, being careful and then some not to bust
the 3000 ceiling until i was well clear of the Class D, which gave me all of
2 miles to get from about 3500 to the 1400 TPA at Orange County. Rwy 3 was
active at Orange County, so i overflew the field, went about 1-2 miles to
the West, descended aggressively and entered the left downind on a 45, still
descending 1200 FPM right up to the downwind turn. Somewhere right over the
field, NY cancelled and i turned over to the CTAF.

Ideas on how to do this better? Some thoughts that
come to mind a

I've flown VFR into MGJ from the same direction.

I simply stayed a tick north of Stewart so I could descend earlier and
arrive at the traffic pattern entry point at pattern altitude without
extra maneuvering.