I don't know how to flight plan any more

I'm flying to Pittsburgh this weekend, and as usual I'm going to KAGC
(Allegheny County). But for a change, instead of taking the club's Lance
I'm going to be taking the Dakota - and unlike the Lance, the Dakota has a
Garmin 530W in it. Now normally, I'd pull out the route I have on my PDA
in CoPilot, plot it on a couple of low altitude enroute charts, and file a
flight plan on those airways. But with the GPS, I'm not sure how to
proceed. Should I just draw a straight line and file direct? I know that
the straight route doesn't go through any special use airspace, and the
altitude I normally fly is high enough to clear any obstacles.

Hey, the worse that could happen is that they give me a full route
clearance, right? And I'll bet the full route clearance isn't too far off
my normal route.

--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not
because they are easy, but because they are hard...." - John F Kennedy