Dan Smith
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Finally, a great New England flying weekend! After flying BTV to IWI (Wiscasset, ME) on Saturday, I had to run a friend down to New Bedford (EWB) Sunday morning to pick up a car. Another beautiful day, but I filed in order to ease the transition through the BOS area and to help with traffic watching. The route down was V139, nice view all the way.
Here's the question: the clearance for the return was: "after departure direct WOONS, direct BOS, direct PSM, direct ENE, maintain 2K, expect 7K", etc. Although I have VFR Loran and GPS, and getting to WOONS wasn't a problem, how did ATC figure I was going to get there as a /U filer? The only route that makes any sense from EWB is direct PVD, 345 radial to HEFTY, to WOONS, and I can't believe that they really wanted me to head for Providence or they would have put PVD in the clearance. It all worked out fine, but I'd like some feedback from anyone interested on what they might have intended, and whether I should have tried to clarify the clearance before accepting it.
Another interesting thing was when approaching PSM: BOS approach says "proceed direct IWI". When I said that as /U I'd need "heading XXX, radar vectors" to be legal, they said "oh... never mind, maintain current clearance". Then PTL gave me direct IWI before reaching ENE, and bit on the radar vectors agreement. It seems like ATC just kind of assumes that anyone in the system can go direct these days.
Dan
Here's the question: the clearance for the return was: "after departure direct WOONS, direct BOS, direct PSM, direct ENE, maintain 2K, expect 7K", etc. Although I have VFR Loran and GPS, and getting to WOONS wasn't a problem, how did ATC figure I was going to get there as a /U filer? The only route that makes any sense from EWB is direct PVD, 345 radial to HEFTY, to WOONS, and I can't believe that they really wanted me to head for Providence or they would have put PVD in the clearance. It all worked out fine, but I'd like some feedback from anyone interested on what they might have intended, and whether I should have tried to clarify the clearance before accepting it.
Another interesting thing was when approaching PSM: BOS approach says "proceed direct IWI". When I said that as /U I'd need "heading XXX, radar vectors" to be legal, they said "oh... never mind, maintain current clearance". Then PTL gave me direct IWI before reaching ENE, and bit on the radar vectors agreement. It seems like ATC just kind of assumes that anyone in the system can go direct these days.
Dan