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Old 11th May 2003 | 05:08
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Rattus
 
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From: A small corner of the Belgian Empire
On our regular route from the midlands to France, we use one such intersection as a turning point to avoid needless hassle with controlled airspace. As it's on the edge of quite a large town, we simply put the name of the town in s15 the VFR FPLN.

Plan B is a VOR/DME fix for the same place

Plan C - spot the town!

Some of these intersections can be useful to avoid the alu/ply/grp clouds around VORs and VRPs, but always have at least one fallback plan in case the batteries go flat or Dubya pulls the plug.

I don't think anyone at a FBU reads s15 of a VFR FPLN very closely, unless you're overdue and he's about to press the SAR button.

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