Snowbird wrote:

Why can't you just navigate to the intersection with
two VORs? Isn't that taught?


There's the concept of "positive course guidance". As far as I know it's not
codified anywhere, it's just recognized by some as good practice. I asked the
same questions, in this same forum, a long time ago, and I came away from that
encounter convinced that positive course guidance is a good thing. I now file
flight plans that use only positive course guidance.

In other words, the initial fix on my route is a ground based navaid of some
kind. If I had a certified GPS, I would have no heartburn about using some
random intersection as an initial fix.

Dave
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