Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:26 pm
#1838611
I was flying a (totally 100% bonefide legal Covid secure etc etc) flight today under VFR in Class G, quite unusual for me!
I was asked by the radar controller for my routing and I used an IFR waypoint SOKDU (mainly because I am a lazy bugger and wanted to let the a/p do the work and the IFR waypoints are in the database and the VRPs are not).
The response was something along the lines of “That’s an IFR waypoint and you’re VFR so what the routing using VFR waypoints” which I assume means VRPs, towns etc.
In response I just said “Sandbanks - Corfe - Wareham”.
At this point guess I could have just said I was IFR (as I was in Class G and basically a state of mind as I fulfilled the relavant IFR criteria) and used the IFR waypoint which then begs the question why was my using of IFR waypoints not accepted?
Is there a general rule that I have forgotten or never known about.
Honest question and not a dig at our ATSU partners, I am too long in the tooth for that type of thread
Thanks
I was asked by the radar controller for my routing and I used an IFR waypoint SOKDU (mainly because I am a lazy bugger and wanted to let the a/p do the work and the IFR waypoints are in the database and the VRPs are not).
The response was something along the lines of “That’s an IFR waypoint and you’re VFR so what the routing using VFR waypoints” which I assume means VRPs, towns etc.
In response I just said “Sandbanks - Corfe - Wareham”.
At this point guess I could have just said I was IFR (as I was in Class G and basically a state of mind as I fulfilled the relavant IFR criteria) and used the IFR waypoint which then begs the question why was my using of IFR waypoints not accepted?
Is there a general rule that I have forgotten or never known about.
Honest question and not a dig at our ATSU partners, I am too long in the tooth for that type of thread
Thanks
Last edited by Andrew Sinclair on Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:57 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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