On 10/17/2005 11:33, Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:
You picked up the north departure track, radar vectors to BAE or PETTY.
You'd be heading north until leaving Chicago approach, the
Wisconsin/Illinois state line. You also filed an outbound route over FARMM,
an arrival fix. You should file something that will pick up the west
departure track; DPA, SIMMN, HINCK.

Is there any way we non-controllers can find this stuff out, except by
experience?



We have a similar problem getting out of Sacramento Executive airport.
My CFII said that he went to the tower and got a list of preferred
routes from their secret list.

When I complained that this shouldn't be a secret, he agreed and
offered only that this is an area that should be done better.

--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Sacramento, CA