In article vagjc.26334$cF6.1147161@attbi_s04,
Bob Gardner wrote:
you get close enough so that the controllers recognize the names of small
towns and airports, tell them you are changing your destination. Having
found Starks on my sectional, I think I would have waited until Seattle
Center handed me off to Portland Approach.

I did offer to switch destinations to a major airport but next time I will
probably start there.

I'd switch as soon as Oakland handed me off to Seattle. Any closer and
you'll start a new round of questions asking why you're way off course.
I didn't even talk to Portland Approach on Sunday, they just cut me loose
at about the time they would have handed me off.

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Ben Jackson

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