Originally Posted by
tbmpilot
it's becoming so bad that you have to tell them 3 or 4 times in a flight that you're a slant alpha when they continue to tell you "go here or go there"...
as long as you get an initial heading and in positive radar control then you can take a heading for JFK if they will let you.
The farthest I have ever heard an aircraft cleared, was when I was flying nights between BUR and OAK and as I was departing BUR and on LA Center's freq over Gorman VOR there would be an Aer Lingus flight and I heard,
"Shamrock XX, cleared direct Dublin"