I don't know how to flight plan any more

But with the GPS, I'm not sure how to
proceed. Should I just draw a straight line and file direct?

Yes. ATC doesn't care how you get there, provided you do it correctly,
as you file.

Even before GPS was ever heard of, I would file "direct" to Dulles and
DCA, ratehr than by airways, because I could do that using just VORs.
I was never asked how.

vince norris

Ah, pre-GPS. In a time long, long ago in a land far, far away....

But you're right Vince, there were many flights using VOR even ADF at night
over very long distances that filed direct back then. Seattle to Tulsa
direct listening to KVOO/1170 all night long was one such trip. Denver to
Dallas on 970 was another. Yep, direct isn't only a GPS thing at all.

--
Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas
"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
...
But with the GPS, I'm not sure how to
proceed. Should I just draw a straight line and file direct?

Yes. ATC doesn't care how you get there, provided you do it correctly,
as you file.

Even before GPS was ever heard of, I would file "direct" to Dulles and
DCA, ratehr than by airways, because I could do that using just VORs.
I was never asked how.

vince norris

"vincent p. norris" wrote in message ...
But with the GPS, I'm not sure how to
proceed. Should I just draw a straight line and file direct?

Yes. ATC doesn't care how you get there, provided you do it correctly,
as you file.

Even before GPS was ever heard of, I would file "direct" to Dulles and
DCA, ratehr than by airways, because I could do that using just VORs.
I was never asked how.

vince norris

Until Jeppesen stopped publishing them, I felt their VOR/DME RNAV
charts were the most useful enroute charts in existence.
They had all the VORs but no airways at all, and they had the right mix
of detail at the most useful chart scale for my taste.
I used them for more than twenty years, and I still yearn for them.

John R. Copeland writes:

Until Jeppesen stopped publishing them, I felt their VOR/DME RNAV
charts were the most useful enroute charts in existence.
They had all the VORs but no airways at all, and they had the right mix
of detail at the most useful chart scale for my taste.
I used them for more than twenty years, and I still yearn for them.

Why aren't they published any more? You must not have been the only person
who found them useful.

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