DreamLand:
Normally most pilots are on the centerline. It is because they "fly" glass c0ckpits-so to speak-while the rest of us dinosaurs try to be near it on the VOR course/radial as we grab the big thunderstorm lights switch in order to recheck the "High Charts" with aging eyeballs.
ATC here has become quite spoiled. So many Controllers now have no chance to ride on the jumpseats and compare various aircraft operations, since 9/11.
By the way PPruners,
'Airbubba' has linked us to many excellent aviation topics, among others, i.e. 'Wino' and 'Huck'. As to how they find the sources, I sometimes have no idea.
Airbubba's experiences are also real-not those 'gleaned' from studying textbook academia and rigid SOPA mantras in a soft chair (often as an assumed substitute for solid 'real world' experience).
'Books will not cushion a meeting of rocks and metal', or whatever the late Earnest Gann said in "Fate Is The Hunter."