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To add some controller input for the position that a heading is not a
vector, here is a post from a controller in another online aviation forum: -----------------snip------------------------------- From a radar controllers' perspective, there is no such thing as a radar vector when in a non radar environemnt, this mean if you don't hear radar contact first, then any assigned heading prior to those words does not constitute a vector. A radar vector is course guidance predicated on radar. Simply by launching from the surface on a assigned heading must not be construed as a radar vector. We assign an initial heading to fly from all our towered fields, and that is all they are, until you hear radar contact and then receive a subsequent heading. Then and only then is a radar vector in play. .... my concern here is that many pilots assume that when a heading is assigned off the ground by a tower controller where there is a surface area, that it is automatically controller assuming terrain and obstacle clearance, it is not. The pilot assumes this responsibility until reaching a minimum IFR altitude or the controller provides a subsequent heading once airborne whether at or below the Minimum IFR altitude. The rationale for this is that the 40:1 is reviewed or there is a ODP for the pilot to fly at his/her perogotive. -----------------snip------------------------------- |
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