"A Lieberman" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:07:14 GMT, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

You had originally filed direct from one airport to another one 337 miles
away. How did you intend to do that if you were unable to accept a
reroute
to something other than a standard VOR or intersection?


Precisely my point Steve.


???



Even though I filed direct, off airwaves, ATC recognized my limitation
that
I could only accept a standard VOR or intersection.


Surely you could accept an airway? What else would you expect ATC use for a
reroute, other than VORs, intersections and airways?



It was NOT assumed by
ATC that I had GPS capability even though I filed direct.


I think it likely that ATC did assume you had GPS capability precisely
because you filed direct. They have to assume that you have the capability
to fly what you filed and at this time it is GPS that is most likely to give
you that capability.



Had they given me a GPS intersection rather then a VOR or VOR associated
intersection, I would have said unable, alerting them to the fact I am
slant Alpha. That was the point I was trying to bring across in my
original post.


What is a "GPS intersection"?



YRK vortac is 148 miles southwest of 2G2. Do you believe there's
something
wrong with being routed over a VOR that far away?


Considering there are quite a few VORs closer then YRK, I was not looking
that far down the road in establishing where I am to where I am going. I
was looking within 45 to 60 miles, not so far down the road.

I am situationally aware of what my next VOR will be when I fly IFR, as I
have them printed as well having the en route maps open. I also change my
NAV 1 and NAV 2 as I progress in my flight path to assist in my situation
awareness.

The problem I had as slight as it was, was finding the frequency to the
VOR. Wasn't in the list of nrst on my Garmin 296, and being in IMC, it's
not exactly conducive of finding a navaid on the paper maps especially 90
odd miles away. I wasn't given a vector, just direct York, direct Bowling
green, so I did not know what direction to look on the en route maps. Had
center given me a vector, I at least would have known which direction to
look.

I would have expected a closer VOR, not one 90 miles away to go direct to.
As you can see, not that big a deal, but for a person like me, learning
the
ropes of IFR, when I am by myself, I don't have CRM available. Small
things do make a big difference.


Did you examine your chosen route at all when you were planning your trip?
Almost halfway between 2G2 and BWG lie a couple of MOAs, your filed route
goes through them. Just a few miles south of the MOAs is York VOR. Your
reroute was probably necessary because the MOAs were in use.