Can GPS be *too* accurate? Do I need some XTE??

If you have never flown a VOR course, where in hell do you fly?

I am a certificated American pilot, and have been for six years. I
have never flown a VOR course and never expect to. I fly in New
Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. I have about 350 hours.

(Early on, I owned a Sporty's handheld with nav feature. I once tuned
it to the Pease VOR just to see how it worked, and never used the
feature again. After not very long, I got rid of the Sporty's for a
Yaseu/Vertex without the nav feature, and have never regretted it. If
I need an electronic aid, I use the GPS. Indeed, if it's comfortable
to do so, I avoid VORs on the theory that they must be airplane
magnets. To a lesser extent, the same must be true of VOR courses,
depending on one's distance from the VOR. Who needs places where other
airplanes congregate?)


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Cub Driver ) wrote:

I am a certificated American pilot, and have been for six years. I
have never flown a VOR course and never expect to. I fly in New
Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. I have about 350 hours.

Is this VFR or IFR?

I mainly file and fly IFR in the Northeast US and I have learned that if
I am flying to or from Boston or anywhere near NYC, I must file and at
least start flying airways. The controllers will offer direct where
possible, but the volume of traffic during the peak hours often prevents
this.

In my experience, there have been a few times where the only way I could
get off the airways was to cancel IFR, weather depending.

--
Peter