Guys,
Think of a VFR flight plan as an e-mail sent to a lot of addresses via AFTN. You can put into the route and remaks fields whatever you want, as long as it does not invalidate the syntax (for example special characters with meaning) you can specify all your waypoints using the Welsh name of the Navaid.
Somebody (a human) figures out where to send it to; sometimes a system provides assistance such as AFPEX, but that is not mandatory.
Hence a lot of bad habits were quietly corrected by professional flight-plan-senders, and the ones that remained where never picked on later because nobody cared enough.
That includes inconsistencies in rules and guidance. For example, is it EET/LFFF.... or EET/SITET.... if you have SITET in the route? Can you have SITET in EET even if you do not have it in the route? You can find backup for any answer from an official source.
It would be great if someone published the rules ATLAS is working to, so we can stop speculating what they are and stop arguing what they should be.
Last edited by Cobalt; 16th Jul 2012 at 20:29.