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I am an inexperienced instrument pilot and I just don't understand why
we file routes on our flight plans at all!

I never get what I filed, anyway, and it's not uncommon that the route
I actually get shares not a single waypoint with what I filed.

This depends almost entirely on where you are flying. I almost always
get 'cleared as filed', and often after departure get cleared direct to
destination. My guess is you're in the northeast, probably relatively
close to NYC. That isn't representative of most of the country.

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Stan

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." B. Franklin