Mike Rapoport wrote:


Since Victor airways don't exist above 17,500, that is one way of filing
the
route without filing an airway that doesn't exist for the flight levels.
More
typically, that is the way ATC will issue a clearance to fly a Victor
airway
when in the flight levels. If they have you on radar it is a perfectly
acceptable practice. It works well in Montana, but not very good in New
Jersey.
;-)


Not nessesarily. I get cleared on Victor airways above FL180 in SoCal all
the time.

Mike
MU-2

I don't doubt it for a moment. Nonetheless, controllers can't change FARS.
Victor airways don't exist up there. They used to state "via the radials of..."
but that's too much work these days.