IFR with a VFR GPS

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This isssue has been addressed in IFR Magazine a number of times. In a
nutshell, you cannot use the VFR GPS as a "primary" navaid. However,
you can go dead reckoning if you wish when IFR. So, if you want to put
something in remarks, that's fine. Once enroute, if you want to go
direct, ask for a radar vector of ___ degrees, direct to ____. You are
then cleared via radar vector (all of it has to be in a radar
environment) and you are using the GPS as a backup, which is perfectly
legal. The controller gets a benefit because you suggest the heading
and you get off of his or her screen faster because you are going
direct.

For filing it doesn't hurt to file radar vectors to your destination
and note the VFR GPS in remarks.


You don't have to play any games with "radar vectors" nor do you have to put
anything in remarks. If you want to go direct then just file direct. It
doesn't matter what you're using for navigation, just be able to fly what
you file.

You don't have to play any games with "radar vectors" nor do you have to put
anything in remarks. If you want to go direct then just file direct.
It
doesn't matter what you're using for navigation, just be able to fly
what
you file.

I don't bother trying to file "direct" as here in the northeast I'd
never get it. Besides, I never file above 7000ft and I end up with a
canned TEC routing anyway. I've been asked on several occasions by ATC
if I'm able direct to (fill in the blank) and the Garmin 150XL can take
me right to the intersection/fix.