Roger wrote:

On Thu, 04 May 2006 13:41:13 -0700, Sam Spade
wrote:


Newps wrote:


Sam Spade wrote:


The "rule" is that direct routes initiated by ATC are limited to the
service volume of VOR (or rarely, NDBs) and the controller can assure
that MIAs will not be violated.

When the pilot makes the request, though, let the buyer beware.




It is irrelavant who makes the request, the rules are the same.

That's sure what is says on paper. Still, let the "buyer beware" when
he makes the request.


Why?

My caution applies primarily in the Western DMA. You are home free in
the middle of the country above 4,000, or so, and 8,000, or so in the
Eastern DMA. In the Western DMA there are airways a whole lot lower
than areas between them.