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"pgbnh" wrote:

The installation of the GNS530 is complete. The learning is just begun. But
since I now have equipment which allows it, what is the likelihood of
receiving 'cleared as filed' if I file direct to a destination a few hundred
miles away?
Is this not what 'Free Flight' was supposed to be about?

Is it geography dependent (I am in Northeast).?
I love victor airways, but D saves time and money.

Any sense of the circumstances under which 'Cleared direct' is likely to
happen for all or a portiuon of a flight?

I've noticed some replies saying "not in the Northeast" and I think what
they really mean is "not if your flight path takes you through one of
the big class B's." Up until a couple years ago I was flying out of
Nashua, NH and can't remember ever *not* getting CAF when flying direct
from there to Buffalo, Bar Harbor, or Caldwell NJ. None of those flights
took me through Boston or NY class B.

Then again things may have changed in the last two or three of years.