Brookfield Abused: I think you've gotten yourself into a dead end, here. You say "if I request a straight in approach", and then you ask us what you are actually requesting? There is no such thing as a straight in approach by itself. You can fly a visual approach straight in (what you normally do unless otherwise required for traffic or terrain or to stay visual), you can sometimes fly an instrument approach straight in (that is to say, without a reversal procedure (procedure turn, baseturn or racetrack)), but "straight in appraoch" on it's own doesn't make any sense. If you want to reduce your maneuvering to a practical minimum, the easiest would be to request a visual approach. If that not possible for some reason, be very careful about being "creative" with instrument procedures; if a straight in procedure is not published, there might be a reason for it.