atpcliff
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Hi!
This is easy.
You tell the controller you have a VFR GPS, and you need a vector heading direct when able.
The controller tells you, fly heading 235 degrees, direct DQN when able. You are legally flying IFR under a controller's direction, until you can receive DQN with your VOR. If you want, when you switch to a new controller, you can ask for a new heading direct.
I had a similar situation a while back. I was flying a plane WITHOUT a GPS, IFR or VFR, and we didn't have a handheld either (this was a Wright Model B that we leased-hahaha!).
We were at about 1500' MSL out of a S. TX airport (at about o'dark:30). The controller asked if we had an IFR or VFR box to go direct to Detroit. I told him we had NO box, whatsoever, but we could take a vector, direct when able.
THe controller cleared us, heading 135 degrees, direct Detroit when able-it's about 1100 miles or so. I had the maps out, and tracked our position via VORs as we went along. Every time we got a new controller, I told him we were on a vector, direct when able.
Sometimes flying a night is great!
Cliff
SDF
This is easy.
You tell the controller you have a VFR GPS, and you need a vector heading direct when able.
The controller tells you, fly heading 235 degrees, direct DQN when able. You are legally flying IFR under a controller's direction, until you can receive DQN with your VOR. If you want, when you switch to a new controller, you can ask for a new heading direct.
I had a similar situation a while back. I was flying a plane WITHOUT a GPS, IFR or VFR, and we didn't have a handheld either (this was a Wright Model B that we leased-hahaha!).
We were at about 1500' MSL out of a S. TX airport (at about o'dark:30). The controller asked if we had an IFR or VFR box to go direct to Detroit. I told him we had NO box, whatsoever, but we could take a vector, direct when able.
THe controller cleared us, heading 135 degrees, direct Detroit when able-it's about 1100 miles or so. I had the maps out, and tracked our position via VORs as we went along. Every time we got a new controller, I told him we were on a vector, direct when able.
Sometimes flying a night is great!
Cliff
SDF