On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:47:43 -0500, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:

However, it is your right to fly any ODP, even if it is not given to you in
your clearance.

I sure didn't know that. What if the tower says "after takeoff maintain
runway heading, climb to 5000" etc. etc. and the ODP has some other sort
of departure (e.g. a turn of some kind)?

I'm relatively new to this but I thought I had to follow what the tower
says in the clearance, until handed off to Departure...

Dave Blevins