The approach clearance from ATC can be one of the most confusing and stress inducing instructions you can get while flying IFR. There's a lot of information packed into one message, and you're already busy planning an approach.

If we think about the approach clearance from a controller's perspective, and how each clearance is organized, it might help to understand it better, and predict what you're going to hear before it's even been said.

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