Originally Posted by
Sunfish
Flying VFR, Avalon tower always asks for your intentions and it had better be a straight line transit.
The strangest thing was when I was tracking to Leopold and over Point Henry having tracked over the ARP, ATC asked where I was, so I told them:”over point Henry 2500 on track for Leopold(which is a VFR waypoint).
‘’They came back with “range and bearing please, we don’t have that detail on our screen and we don’t know where that is” WTF?
Are IFR JET Pilots and ATC deliberately trying to be autistic or what?
Which ATC unit? As a tower controller I can't imagine that happening as we generally know our landmarks, and it took me all of 5 seconds to find both points on a VTC (and I am not familiar with the Melbourne basin except in the broadest sense). Every tower I have worked at has all sorts of maps readily available. Pretty sure even the TCU has an assortment of maps right above their workstation but I don't know for sure what they have displayed.