Ron Rosenfeld wrote:


ATC may not (is not allowed to) issue you an off airway routing outside of
radar coverage and outside of NAVAID standard service areas. At least not
in the lower 48.

Bah, Salt Lake allows that all the time. To the north of us the radar
coverage is poor below about 9000. The ground here is at 3650 and gets
lower the farther north you go. ZLC regularly terminates aircraft after
we send them and asks them to make occasional reports.