"Dave Butler" wrote in message
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John Clonts wrote:

Side question, I have tried filing via Duats a flight plan beginning
at a navaid, and it won't let me because it tries to convert it to an
airport (e.g. XYZ Vor yields "Airport KXYZ does not exist"). Do you
know of some way around this?

Maybe it's the web front-end or whatever you are using to access DUAT. I
just
tried using the telnet connection (telnet direct.duats.com) and
successfully
entered a flight plan starting from HNN, which is a navaid, but there is
no
airport with that identifier. Don't try to make sense of the routing,
time,
etc., I just made up stuff to fill in all the fields:
[Snip]

I think you're right. In fact the www.duats.com front end will accept the
flight plan FILING with navaid endpoints. It's just the "Flight Planner"
portion that requires airport endpoints. Which makes some sense.

Thanks,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ