Ron Natalie wrote:



No TEC in Florida.

California is the only place where TEC has any meaning with respect
to how flight plans get filed. In the NE (the only other place with
an official TEC program) it's little more than preferred routes that
keep you out of center airspace.

Ron,
Here in the Northeast, if you don't file the TEC, you are probably going
to get it anyway, at least around the NYC area. For example, going from
Providence to BWI, I've got a choice of 6000' on V16, or if I want
higher I either get there via MANTA, which is some 60 miles offshore or
I get stuck with going north to Barnes (BAF) then V292 to SAGES to Lake
Henry (LHY) to get the long way around. If I want to go through NYC,
then my only choice is V16 at 6000'. Period. And that is regardless of
what I might file.