Don't forget, if you're not happy with what we fire up to you on ACARS then call on VHF and, provided we've got time, we'll do our best to give you a couple of alternatives; thereby enabling you to pick the best of what I'll admit may be a bad(ish) bunch. But you're absolutely right, getting in early is the key. (Keeping in mind the not more than 90mins prior to ETA over the entry fix; not such a prob ex-LL admitedly).
