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Heh!
I was once cleared to a lat/lon point 300 miles away from my St. Louis = departure! Turned out to be a VORTAC location that I'd actually filed to. Somebody was foolin' with me. I told clearance delivery I'd read back the clearance, soon as I found = that lat/lon point. ---JRC--- "Robert Henry" wrote in message = news:9s7ab.18898$pe.10355@lakeread06... Actually, I think they have the mindset, but don't understand the = ergonomic factors that can be encountered trying to use it. =20 For example, I've twice been cleared to random 5-letter fixes which do = not appear on enroute charts that turn out to be IF's for ILS approaches. = These clearances were issued en route, 60-100 miles away from the airport, = well before an expected approach had been specified. Actually, both = approaches ended up being visuals. I don't know every 5 character permutation of "wip-pee" intersection and which one applies - running through the = guesses takes some serious knob time. Yet there's always a certain irritation (noted by the poster as well) in the response to the request for clarification, the spelling in my example. =20 Maybe a screenshot of a Garmin 430 with intersections and data fields represented on the 100nm scale will help to convey the problem. =20 -- =20 Bob PP-ASEL-IA, A/IGI =20 "JerryK" wrote in message news:_Y6ab.487139$YN5.330405@sccrnsc01... Sounds like you did the correct thing. It is going to ATC awhile to = adopt a GPS mindset. =20 |
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