No plan survives contact with the enemy...

In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:
You picked up the north departure track, radar vectors to BAE or PETTY.
You'd be heading north until leaving Chicago approach, the
Wisconsin/Illinois state line. You also filed an outbound route over FARMM,
an arrival fix. You should file something that will pick up the west
departure track; DPA, SIMMN, HINCK.

Is there any way we non-controllers can find this stuff out, except by
experience?


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Don't you just hate them? Don't you just wanna break their ribs,
cut their backs open and pull their lungs out from behind?
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