Get the conversion thing sussed early going from ft-QNH to metres-QFE.
In my limited experience of going into DME they let you leave one of the beacons near the airport at around FL70 equivalent and you either get vectored for miles, or they try and slam-dunk you. They just don't let you in on their masterplan (not sharing the mental puddle)
Multiple frequency changes and 7 bits of information at once are also good (although that was operating into Murmansk)
Oh yeah - and sports bras on for take-off, landing and taxi
