"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
om...
Sounds more like the old days of trying to fly an NDB intercept.
Correcting cross winds in your example sounds harder than actually
usnig a VOR.

I think that's only because I laid it out so painfully. How about this
method?

1) At VOR, turn aircraft to track towards next VOR
2) Goto 1.

The reason I like airways on the GPS is because while the
clouds are wacking the crap out of you and you're jumping through busy
airspace, you can quickly turn the plane to maintain the center of the
airway. You also don't need to figure out what intersection the airway
turns at next. It sounds like Garmin IFR pilots keep an enroute very
close at hand so they can figure out where all the turns are in the
airway.

Some of the differing perspective in this thread are due to flying in
environments with different demands. I fly in an environment in which the
requirement is almost always to fly direct towards a waypoint rather than
track a centerline, and which is sufficiently busy that making significant
turns to make aggressive radial intercepts is going to raise some eyebrows
at ATC. You fly in an environment in which the choice is to follow the
airway centerlines or hit rock.

All that said, airways on Garmins would be a nice feature.

Julian Scarfe