stupid GPS question

Mike W. wrote:

And why is it when I file an airway flight plan with AOPA flight planner, it
always throws a couple of these in the route? Why not just go from the last
VOR direct to your destination airport? Does it assume that I have a GPS
with a current database? Or is it assuming that if I am creating an airway
route that I am IFR?

No, it's because you filed an *airway* plan. It will try to route you via the
airways, and most routes involve intersections. Use the "direct" planning
option. It will not put in any intersections -- nor will it put in VORs. So, if
you want to go from RDU to the Volunteer VOR and then into TYS, you would create
a flight plan from KRDU to KTYS and then drag the route over to the VOR on the
chart.

Or download AirplanLite. I like it a lot better.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.