On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:13:58 -0500, "Icebound"
wrote:

If the track from present-position to MAPOE is fairly close to 063... even
if technically in that IAF=CIMAN quadrant... would not the controller (and
the pilot) think it more convenient to go direct MAPOE and make the turn,
rather than having to swing out 5 miles to CIMAN and come back???

That was the point I was trying to make. Except I would be looking at the
distance rather than the track.
--ron