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![]() "John Harper" wrote: In two words, don't bother. Flew today Anacortes (north of Seattle) back home to Palo Alto, IFR at FL190. The flight plan was pretty complicated, over a dozen waypoints all carefully entered into my shiny new 530 during climb out. Are you talking about a flight plan or a clearance? Wouldn't you enter a flight plan on the ground? And guess what... I got to fly to exactly one of them. Initially I was vectored, then given direct to one of them, then I asked direct for the last one in Seattle's airspace, and they gave me direct Palo Alto. Very nice of them, and I did appreciate it. But it made all that twiddling pretty pointless. I agree about entering a compex flight plan that you've never flown before - most likely your clearance and route will be different. When I'm given a multipoint clearance from ATC though, I always load it in the GPS. In the (unlikely, I admit) event that I lose com in IMC and have to fly my original clearance, it's right there for me. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message ...
"John Harper" wrote: In two words, don't bother. Flew today Anacortes (north of Seattle) back home to Palo Alto, IFR at FL190. The flight plan was pretty complicated, over a dozen waypoints all carefully entered into my shiny new 530 during climb out. Are you talking about a flight plan or a clearance? Wouldn't you enter a flight plan on the ground? And guess what... I got to fly to exactly one of them. Initially I was vectored, then given direct to one of them, then I asked direct for the last one in Seattle's airspace, and they gave me direct Palo Alto. Very nice of them, and I did appreciate it. But it made all that twiddling pretty pointless. I agree about entering a compex flight plan that you've never flown before - most likely your clearance and route will be different. When I'm given a multipoint clearance from ATC though, I always load it in the GPS. In the (unlikely, I admit) event that I lose com in IMC and have to fly my original clearance, it's right there for me. look at it as a 'proficiency exercise' for the 530. i know that's how i learned the kln-89b. had flown apollo gps's, bought a twin that had the '89b already installed/ifr cert'd. i had heard that they had a really crummy u/i, but i didn't find it so bad. my first long x/c was from texas to boston, and from lyh to owd i had my clearance changed 8 times. by the time i got to owd, i was pretty 'seasoned' at entering flight plans in the '89b. :-) g_a |
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