How long before /G required for IFR?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Stan Prevost" wrote in message
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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And yet if you suggest to
another pilot that you could get to "so-and-so" intersection (which is
the
intersection of two airways that you're not currently on) from here by
taking a 200 heading until you hit the airway, then turning down along
the
airway until you hit the intersection, and they look at you like you've
grown an extra horn on your head.

Why don't pilots do approximate bearings like that? The only thing I've
seen close to that is when ATC will give you an approximate heading to a
VOR a long way away and say "fly 200 degrees, then direct ETX when
able".


Because you are required to fly direct, not find your way there by some
indirect route. If you are cleared from present position direct FOOBAR,
you are required to fly along the direct course between those two points.

§ 91.181 Course to be flown.
Unless otherwise authorized by ATC, no person may operate an aircraft
within controlled airspace under IFR except as follows:

(a) On a Federal airway, along the centerline of that airway.


So why are the airways eight miles wide?


I don't know. Why are they? I would like to know.

But it is irrelevant to the issue at hand. The rule says what it says.

"Stan Prevost" wrote in message
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I don't know. Why are they? I would like to know.

But it is irrelevant to the issue at hand. The rule says what it says.


Yup. Why isn't the rule enforced?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Stan Prevost" wrote in message
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I don't know. Why are they? I would like to know.

But it is irrelevant to the issue at hand. The rule says what it says.


Yup. Why isn't the rule enforced?


I don't know to what extent it may or may not be enforced. I have never
heard of an enforcement action regarding that rule.

I bet it would be enforced if a pilot headed off his required direct route
over to an airway which he was not cleared onto and it caused a controller a
deal.

If it isn't enforced, why not? I would like to know.

But it doesn't change the rule, which is still there and available for
enforcement, and is still binding on pilots and controllers.

"Stan Prevost" wrote in message
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But it doesn't change the rule, which is still there and available for
enforcement, and is still binding on pilots and controllers.


How is it binding on controllers?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Stan Prevost" wrote in message
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But it doesn't change the rule, which is still there and available for
enforcement, and is still binding on pilots and controllers.


How is it binding on controllers?


Is it true that a controller may not issue an instruction to a pilot that
would require the pilot to violate a rule of the FAR?

"Stan Prevost" wrote in message
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Is it true that a controller may not issue an instruction to a pilot that
would require the pilot to violate a rule of the FAR?


No. Pilots are required to abide by the FARs and controllers are required
to abide by FAA Order 7110.65.