UNFAMILIAR WITH APCHS TO SFO ARPT; A B767 CREW WAS ISSUED AN APCH PROC THEY HAD NOT BRIEFED ON.

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ON A FERRY FLT FROM LAX TO SFO; NEITHER MY FO NOR MYSELF HAD FLOWN INTO SFO IN OVER 5 YRS. WE BRIEFED LNDG ON RWY 28R WHILE ON THE GND IN LAX. WHEN WE WERE HANDED OVER FROM CTR TO APCH; WE WERE TOLD TO EXPECT RWY 28L. I THEN QUICKLY BRIEFED THE SFO RWY 28L ILS. COMING UP ON PALO ALTO; WE WERE ASKED IF WE 'HAD' THE ARPT. I COULD SEE THE ARPT. WE WERE THEN CLRED FOR THE 'TIPTOE' VISUAL APCH. I ASKED MY FO TO GET IT OUT AND BRIEF ME ON THE APCH. SHE HAD TROUBLE FINDING IT UNTIL I TOLD HER IT WAS AT THE BACK OF ALL THE OTHER APCHS. WHEN SHE DID FIND IT; WE PUT IT ON THE CTR PEDESTAL AND I RUSHED THE BRIEF AS IT LOOKED TO ME AS WE WERE ALREADY PAST THE TURN INBOUND. BECAUSE OF ALL THE CONFUSION; WHEN I STARTED TO TURN AND DSND; MY FO QUESTIONED WHETHER WE WERE CLRED TO DSND. THIS DISTR ME EVEN FURTHER. DURING ALL THIS; I FLEW THROUGH THE RWY 28R FLT PATH AND HAD TO FLY BACK THROUGH IT ON MY UNEVENTFUL DSCNT AND LNDG ON RWY 28L. I WAS THOROUGHLY UNPREPARED FOR THE 'TIPTOE' VISUAL. I SHOULD HAVE REFUSED IT; AS EVERYTHING HAD TO GO JUST RIGHT FOR US TO BRIEF THE VISUAL QUICKLY ENOUGH. I ALSO FEEL APCH COULD HAVE GIVEN ME A LOT MORE WARNING. LOOKING BACK; EVEN IF MY FO HAD FOUND IT MORE QUICKLY; THERE IS TOO MUCH ON THAT VISUAL (INCLUDING THE SPECIAL MISSED APCH) TO SAFELY BRIEF IT AFTER BEING HANDED OVER TO APCH. APCH OR TWR NEVER ADMONISHED US ABOUT OUR APCH. AS FAR AS WE COULD TELL FROM THIS AND TCASII; WE NEVER CAME CLOSE TO OTHER ACFT ON APCH.