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Old January 13th, 2007, 00:36   #15
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Default Re: Forced to assign an arrival

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Originally Posted by casey View Post
hah, we had an issue getting a clearance out of iah one day to rsw, they wanted to put us on a gulf deepwater route (and we have a 50nm offshore limitation) and they could not get a good routing from center so we finally settled on "iah bpt4.btr radar vecotors srq" and then into rsw. center had some words for us when we finally go to them (and tried to put us back on the overwater route), but it got us where we were going
I hate that when they can't get a/c limits through their heads. We had the problem twice going up to HPN (White Plains, NY) from IAD (Dulles). ATC kept trying to take us too far out over the Atlantic for traffic.
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