Well fair enough.
I certainly wasn’t trying to teach you how to FP. I dont suppose I would have very much to contribute is a given. I simply didn’t see the route you set out achieves the advantages you suggest given than both routes are flown in VMC. I couldn’t think of a more polite way of saying so.
It was you who said
I fly the airways for better routings, better fuel management and the gain in TAS not so I can get a better service than others in the same airspace.
And then
Because I choose not to fly low level across a large distance of water in a SEP.
It is a personal choice
I was simply pointing out (with which you seemed to agree) that for the route you gave it doesn’t seem to give a better route, or better fuel management or necessarily a gain in TAS and it doesn’t give you a higher crossing level.
I was simply presuming, given what you said, that there was some other reason.
Sorry if I misunderstood - just trying to understand the rationale.
[I havent come across LMAO - whats that one?]