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RiddlePilot · September 5th, 2004, 15:54

What's up with Denver and doing that? Almost this exact thing happened between ASE and GJT. We'd departed VFR to GJT, but decided to air-file IFR due to some deteriorating weather. Denver told us "Cleared to Grand Junction airport via radar vectors, climb and maintain 14,000, etc." I don't feel very comfortable with flying over mountainous terrain in actual on a heading alone (even if we did have a decent altitude), so I asked for a vector to V134. No dice...they just got annoyed and repeated their last instruction.

September 5th, 2004, 15:54	#13
RiddlePilot Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Prescott, AZ Posts: 928	Re: Another IFR Question What's up with Denver and doing that? Almost this exact thing happened between ASE and GJT. We'd departed VFR to GJT, but decided to air-file IFR due to some deteriorating weather. Denver told us "Cleared to Grand Junction airport via radar vectors, climb and maintain 14,000, etc." I don't feel very comfortable with flying over mountainous terrain in actual on a heading alone (even if we did have a decent altitude), so I asked for a vector to V134. No dice...they just got annoyed and repeated their last instruction.