What it is, is ATC expects everyone to be able to navigate direct, one way
or another.

"Colin W Kingsbury" wrote in message
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"Dan Thompson" wrote in message
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This is an old horse and I almost hate to bring it up again, but are you
aware you can legally accept direct FUBAR as a /U under IFR, and monitor
your progress with a handheld GPS?

Yeah, well aware of it, and in my neighborhood (New England) you're
usually
operating under radar and on airways anyway. My point was more that it
seemed as though ATC was simply starting to expect everyone to have GPS.