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(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

I'm flying to Pittsburgh this weekend, and as usual I'm going to KAGC
(Allegheny County). But for a change, instead of taking the club's Lance
I'm going to be taking the Dakota - and unlike the Lance, the Dakota has a
Garmin 530W in it. Now normally, I'd pull out the route I have on my PDA
in CoPilot, plot it on a couple of low altitude enroute charts, and file a
flight plan on those airways. But with the GPS, I'm not sure how to
proceed. Should I just draw a straight line and file direct? I know that
the straight route doesn't go through any special use airspace, and the
altitude I normally fly is high enough to clear any obstacles.

Hey, the worse that could happen is that they give me a full route
clearance, right? And I'll bet the full route clearance isn't too far off
my normal route.

If you are /G, file a flight plan as you would have an RNAV route.
Draw your lines on the chart, record the headings.
File one waypoint in each ATC sector, VOR/Radial/Distance (every 50-100
nm).

Don Brown wrote an excellent article on this topic. It is in the AvWeb
archives.