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Unless unusually busy, center or approaches are generally very glad to give
initial vectors for an intersection or fix, which gives you time to set up
your own equipment. It is just a push of the button for them to do this.
This is used a lot by the airlines and corporate.

....Edwin

On 01 Sep 2000 12:34:53 GMT, RossPilot wrote: >This
thread is particularly interesting to me since Tuesday I departed Caldwell
>IFR for Nantucket. My clearance was to climb to 2000 runway heading and
>vectors to Brezy
>intersection. Then direct Carmel . . . etc.
>On climbout, in the soup, the controller said to proceed direct Brezy. No
>vectors.
>I was single pilot IFR (heavy workload) and
>had to kinda scramble to reset my VORs
>and attempt to find it, looking at the chart and still maintain good aircraft
>control, etc.
>I managed and proceeded without incident, but it was a struggle I could have
>done without.


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