Filing direct with GPS

"DL" wrote in message
nk.net...

Cleared direct to an AIRPORT (with NDB as only navaid there). Radar
contact lost 196 miles out. Was requested to report 175 miles from K---.
Was asked distance out a couple of times before reaching 175 miles. Then
handed to next Center. Was asked to report 125 miles from K--- and asked
a time or two range a time or two before reaching that. Then before
reaching 125 miles, Center reported "radar contact".


Cleared direct to what airport from approximately what point? I ask only
because I'd like to examine the charts to see what proper nonradar routes
could have been issued.



I also had a similar experience with only one of these two Centers,
several years ago and with /A equipment then. When they reported "radar
contact lost" I proactively asked if I needed to proceed to the nearest
airway and they said no - to continue. I e-mailed a controller in another
Center (who frequently posted to this newsgroup) about that experience and
was told it "was done".

Steven, you may be able to speak to the "letter and verse" of the rules,
but you may not know every practice in every center, as seems to be
suggested here.


Those "practices" are controller errors. US ATC facilities are not free to
decide for themselves how they're going to provide services. They're
required to follow the procedures set down in FAA Order 7110.65. I provided
a reference for the procedures covering the situation we're discussing
earlier in this thread.