Fixes provided in routing for IFR flight plans - VFR waypoints okay?

Jim Carter wrote
The ELT has improved on all of these times and flight watch is more
popular now to the point that the alerting practice can get quite
protracted. The sense of urgency isn't there unless accompanied by a
failure to report to flight watch or an ELT signal -- which had to be
done to live with the staffing reductions promised by the new ELT
technology...

As Bob Gardner previously pointed out in another thread, or perhaps over
on RAP, Flight Watch has no function other than the collection and
dissimination of aviation weather. Although generally co-located with a
Flight Service Station, they are not one and the same. Pilots should not
be using Flight Watch as a substitute for a FSS.

Bob Moore

Roger wrote:



IOW in some cases SAR may not even be alerted unless some one calls
and wonders where you are.

No doubt about it. A prudent course of action is to have someone who
gives a damn about you to make the wakeup call. But, once that is done,
SAR will benefit greatly from a precise VFR track.

You're right Bob - I mis-spoke - I should have said "flight following".

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Moore ]
Posted At: Monday, December 04, 2006 7:53 AM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Fixes provided in routing for IFR flight plans - VFR
waypoints okay?
Subject: Fixes provided in routing for IFR flight plans - VFR
waypoints okay?

Jim Carter wrote
The ELT has improved on all of these times and flight watch is more
popular now to the point that the alerting practice can get quite
protracted. The sense of urgency isn't there unless accompanied by a
failure to report to flight watch or an ELT signal -- which had to
be
done to live with the staffing reductions promised by the new ELT
technology...

As Bob Gardner previously pointed out in another thread, or perhaps
over
on RAP, Flight Watch has no function other than the collection and
dissimination of aviation weather. Although generally co-located with
a
Flight Service Station, they are not one and the same. Pilots should
not
be using Flight Watch as a substitute for a FSS.

Bob Moore

A Lieberma wrote:

But I am doing good.... Still have not made a direct reply :-)

Allen

but apparently not good enough to not make 29587234059863245874 snarly
indirect replies @_@