On 29 Mar 2005 14:01:07 -0800, "Michael"
wrote:

As you gain experience in a given area of the country, you will
eventually learn what they like to do in that particular part of the
country. Then you can get to a point where you can guess what's coming
maybe three times out of four. That's it. Your chances of getting
cleared as filed in busy airspace you're unfamiliar with are
effectively zero. The only time you can get what you want, you can
also get direct. The stuff in the A&FD is worthless.


there are routes in certain areas in the northeast that are just about
guaranteed to be what the AFD publishes, and in busy airspace (which
of course is where the TEC routes are)