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argh -- flight plan routes
ventmode I am an inexperienced instrument pilot and I just don't understand why we file routes on our flight plans at all! I never get what I filed, anyway, and it's not uncommon that the route I actually get shares not a single waypoint with what I filed. It is an interesting game to try to guess what they want you to do, file that, and see if I get it back, but I so seldom win at it. I even use the trick of, yes, filing what they gave me last time, but no, even that is not sure-fire. It's not that I'm complaining, but, okay, I'm complaining a bit. - is the route box in the flight plan form just an anachronism from a more flexible time in history - why shouldn't I just file DIRECT? - The equipment I have access to is /A. If I did file direct, will the routing I get be /A friendly? This is perhaps tricky and illegal, because I know that I couldn't actually fly the direct route I asked for. (well, that's a total side discussion, I know, what I can do with radar vectors and a VFR GPS) This is all only a minor annoyance, except for when I am sitting in the runup area with a newly picked up clearance, trying to figure out where those fixes are while the hobbs meter is running. /ventmode -- dave j -- jacobowitz73 --at-- yahoo --dot-- com |
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