Max distance between GPS waypoints?

East of the Rockies, the "Direct destination" works really well. West of the Rockies, not so well. We have so much special-use airspace that it's far more likely you'll need to be routed.

On Tuesday, we left Elk City, OK (ELK) for St. Louis Downtown (CPS) with a flight plan that I'd filed as DIRECT and simply got:

"you're cleared to the St. Louis Downtown airport as filed. Climb and maintain 15,000 feet."

One and done. The straight-line distance was something just over 400 miles.
Welcome back to Illinois. I know you love it here.:p
 
Thanks - you leaving for the PA-32 gathering at OLV? We leave in a couple of hours.
I wish. Originally had an angel flight scheduled to Boston. I just canceled because of the t-storm forecast for Saturday. That same forecast will prevent me from just doing a Saturday down and back to the fly-in.
 
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