True, but if the MOAs are active then it will be a *really* long flight.
Eyeballing it on Flightmap, it looks about 90nm longer. Most of the traffic
over Buckeye is probably coming from Los Angeles not Las Vegas

Mike
MU-2
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Mike Rapoport wrote:



Anybody who files IFR from Las Vegas to Pheonix has to expect to go over
DRK.

Mike
MU-2

Not if they file to go south then come in from the west over Buckeye. In
an
MU-2, you're right, who cares? But, in a Cessna 182, if I want to fly the
extra
miles for my perception of safety, that should be my choice. Aircraft
enter the
PHX terminal airspace from over Buckeye just as much as they do from over
Drake.