One thing you do NOT want on your mind is a concern for fuel. I arrive at Ripon with two hours of fuel, period, and one year that was not enough and I ended up at a holiday inn in Madison, only about 30 minutes away. Madison is an "easy in and easy out" fuel stop, although it, too, will be busy and crowded. They are very nice at Wisconsin Aviation.
Also, and this works for me, while I do have the NOTAM bound up and looking pretty nearby, I have taken several bits of info and printed out on an index card that is clipped to my clipboard. I have these bullet points IN ORDER as they will be needed. I.E. Arrival ATIS freq, Fisk Approach freq, the identifiers for the four transition points, Tower North freq, and Tower South freq. I also have alternated location info for Appleton and FLD. When Fisk hands me off, that is when I find out if I am lucky and get the 18/36 (Twr South) and I will have that freq right in front of me. Gives me time to turn to that page of the NOTAM to see where I have colored in the DOTS, and life is good.
Be careful. Turning off your depiction of other aircraft traffic on whatever display you might be using might ease your pucker factor.
I do have a concern about the transition points and I hope I am wrong. It appears that they have merely extended the Ripon to Fisk and added 30 plus miles to it. I am hoping that since 2019, a bunch of my fellow aviators have learned how to fly in trail because they have heretofore had a LOT of difficulty doing that over those railroad tracks. FISK is the decision point and my hope is that sometime they will have TWO "fisks". I am sure this has been well thought out and my fingers are crossed.
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