"DL" wrote in message
nk.net...

Last week, both Ft. Worth and Houston centers said "radar contact lost,
report X miles from Y" while I was cleared direct (not on airways) with /G
equipment - in Texas, going west into large headwinds at 4000.


Cleared direct to where and how far from it were you when radar contact was
lost?



I'm sure YMMV in other parts of the country, but from this I learned: 1)
file that way and 2) even if radar contact lost, sometimes they won't send
you directly to an airway.


You don't necessarily have to be on an airway, but if you aren't you have to
be proceeding direct to a navaid and be within the usable distance.