Route Planning

Jose wrote:

But it was mostly dismissed with a , "you never get the route you
filed for anyway in the Northeast." Which has been my experience and
thus my question.


That is my experience also; I'm in the northeast too.

Jose

Well, yes and no. If you fly a route a couple of times you can pretty
well predict what routing you are going to get. If you then file that,
you'll more often than not either get cleared as filed, or a full route
clearance that turns out to be exactly what you filed (for example, if I
file PVD ORW V16 ENO at 6000', they'll as often as not give me a full
route clearance that comes out PVD ORW V16 JFK V16 ENO or something
similar, but it is the route and altitude I filed, just with an extra
waypoint added, or sometimes with a V number added where I had two VORs
in a row in my file, or an alternate V number where two victor airways
overlap (V1 and V16 for example).