"K. Ari Krupnikov" wrote:

writes:

For flights into remote areas that may not have a nearby high VOR (unusal,
but possible) filing of a Victor airway for the last 200 miles, or so, is
acceptable

I guess by then you would have descended below FL180 anyway, right?

No, you won't usually be below 180 until about 50-60 miles out.


or even "the radials of V-999."

What's that?


Since Victor airways don't exist above 17,500, that is one way of filing the
route without filing an airway that doesn't exist for the flight levels. More
typically, that is the way ATC will issue a clearance to fly a Victor airway
when in the flight levels. If they have you on radar it is a perfectly
acceptable practice. It works well in Montana, but not very good in New Jersey.
;-)