"Frank Ch. Eigler" wrote in message
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(Paul Tomblin) writes:

[...] 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. [...]

Why not do the exact same thing - follow the airways and make
controllers' lives probably a little bit easier?

Because that would NOT make their lives easier (due to congestion on the
airways)?