"A Lieberman" wrote in message
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On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:41:31 GMT, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

I still don't get it. If you have to go to 7000 to ensure radar coverage
then that's how high you'd have to go for that second pair of eyes. If
you're high enough to ensure radar coverage you're high enough to be
cleared
direct.

The radar outage would only be for a small segment of the flight. Why go
so high when I don't need to.

It seems you need to. Not withstanding it is safer, cooler, smoother, and
usually more efficient to be higher.

Or, go IFR, and learn how to work with ATC better to get what you want.

Karl