A few VKO generalities:
If you fly an arrival, they will often "forget" you, so you're chasing them all the time ("Confirm we may descend with the profile?")
They are very good at giving you the new height just as you're about to level off, thus compressing the work a bit
If being RV'ed, they leave you on a 90 deg intercept and more often than not forget to clear you for the approach - again, chase them...
Finally, they're not going to give you a landing clearance untill you advise "Ready for landing, Gear Down"
Ground, as stated, is a law unto itself. Arrival is smooth, but be prepared for departure. As you won't have an APU, you may want to pre-order a 28V GPU, since you can sit waiting for the start-up-clearance for longer than you care to think about. My record is 10 hrs (1 refuel, 1 re-catering, 2 toilet services) - before we had to yell "uncle" and tell the pax that even if we went now, we'd be out of duty and that we'd better cut our losses, regroup in the hotel and try again next day
- don't think your batt is gonna be good for that long...
Otherwise, everyone is very friendly and always try to help you out - good place, but slightly chaotic.
Oh - another tip is just to take whatever arrival and departure slot you can get prior to your ETA or ETD, and then delay the fpl till you get to where you want. If you try to move the slot, they'll fine you 2000 EUR. Makes you wonder why they have a slot allocation system
, but hey, it's their train set!