Aha! Great catch question. It's actually a SJC arrival, you mean you
didn't think to look there? There's a note somewhere on the back of
the (Jepp) plate that tells you to look under SJC for arrival. (My
instructor pulled this one on me when I was training, so fortunately I
was prepared).

John

"Greg" wrote in message
om...
I fly IFR out of Palo Alto and have never heard of the PYE1 arrival.
Where can I find it? Is it a high altitude thing? It doesn't seem to
be in the PAO section of my plates. Just curious.

greg

"John Harper" wrote in message
news:1065480517.160531@sj-nntpcache-5...
There was a thread a while ago about filing direct, and the need to
include
a fix
for each ARTCC boundary. Just thought I'd give my recent experience.
I've
been flying up and down from CA to the North West a bit lately. The V
route
from the Seattle area to the Bay Area is a horror. So when I came back
from
Medford (ZSE) I just filed direct Point Reyes then the STAR for Palo
Alto
(PYE1). I got some vectors for climbing (terrain to the South) then
direct
PYE.

This weekend I went to the Seattle area. I filed direct Olympia direct.
Once
I'd
been vectored out from under the jets coming into the Bay Area, I got
direct
OLM.

This morning returning (from Renton), I filed direct PYE PYE1. My
clearance
was SEA J1 BTG then as filed, but I got vectored out of the way of the
jets
then direct PYE.

So, between Oakland and Seattle, three out of three. YMMV of course.

John