Originally Posted by
shfo
They also mention PHX as one of the airports that has constant decent arrivals but in my experience at least on the Geela arrival you waste a lot of fuel because you are so low so far away from the airport. That arrival is also far from a constant descent.
It's Gila (pronounced, "heelah"), and yeah, they tend to just vector onto a long downwind at a fairly constant altitude and make a base/vector to the proper approach path. Way out over the extreme end of "the valley". I've come in a few times more "constantly", but most of the time they seem to be running this "mega-traffic-pattern" idea. It seems like it could be a lot more efficient.