"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in news:dJIUd.2243
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Moot point. An off-airways clearance beyond usable navaid limits is not
available in a nonradar environment.

Certainly it is. I get it all the time, on almost every flight. Radar, and
in fact radio communications, doesn't extend to most of my destinations. And
there are hundreds, often thousands, of flights daily in the Gulf of Mexico,
many of them IFR. I commonly get 'direct'.

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Regards,

Stan