I do. I heard somewhere (probably the "opposing bases" podcast) that they find it helpful to have a fix in their airspace, as they often have no idea where your destination is. Remember they don't have your magenta line to tell them where you're going. They know where you are, and are familiar with fixes & airports in their sector, so that gives them a better handle on direction of travel.
How does a pilot know that all of the facilities that his route traverses will have ERAM?
I wonder why not oceanic routes?
ERAM should know every published fix in the nation and many outside.
Oh. I see.
Depends on where you are going. Filing direct to go from New Jersey to Rhode Island will NEVER be approved and you'll get a routing that will challenge your writing skills. I filed what I naively thought would be OK, going VOR to VOR without airways, I got a snaking route that crossed Long Island Sound three times. There you want to find some previously filed routes follow the victor airways that cross JFK and then go to the Northeast.
The “problem” here is knowing if those previously-assigned routes were compatible with the altitudes I can fly in my Warrior - unless you can show me a way to distinguish between routes used for turbines vs mere mortals? I’d appreciate knowing that tool if it exists.
If you go on FlightAware shortly before you fire up and look up your tail number, you’ll typically see exactly what they’ll be reading to you. I do that, write it on my knee board, and basically end up just confirming it when they read me the clearance. There are other similar sources. About the only things I need to add are along the lines of “fly runway heading until…” and “radar vectors to…”, plus initial altitude, freq, and squawk.
Garmin pilot also sorts them by type, so it's pretty easy to pick out the pa28's from the pc12's. I presume FF does the same.
I've looked that data up, filed it and then got "cleared as filed". The problem is that as soon as I get near the sector boundary, I get "have a reroute, advise when ready to copy".
Me too. My hack for that is to find a class C near my departure and destination and use those to look up the route. Nearly always works.
Garmin Pilot on iOS also gives you altitude that the route used.
884nm is the longest direct route I filed and got. From ARR to LAL. I did get some re-routes in GA for airspace but they were minor. No rule that prevents it for a qualified airplane.
Perhaps, but I'd rather copy a different initial clearance while on the ground than a re-route while in the air.
