Originally Posted by
N5XXER
As far as the Garmin 430 is concerned. You can select to go Direct to the VOR...then push the OBS button and dial in your desired radial into the NAV indicator that your GPS is hooked up to. Now all you have to do is intercept the radial and track in to the 60DME fix.
NO! Unless I misunderstood the original clearance, he WAS NOT cleared to intercept the 301 radial and track it to the D60 point...he was cleared DIRECTLY to the D60 point from his current position (which was not on the 301 radial). That means a straight line courtesy of RNAV. RJ85FO described how to program that into the Garmin.
The only reason TD got away wiith this was because he was on a nearby radial, so his approximation wasn't noticeable to ATC, or they just didn't care about the slight deviation.