The USA are one country, you can’t compare that to Europe. Compare flying from Germany to France to flying from the USA to Mexico. Let’s see who is first to finish planning and taking off…
It is the same process as far as getting a clearance and dependent on the country of origin. As long as the flight starts in the US, the filing of the flightplan and obtaining the clearance is the same. Now, if you start in another country and end in the US, it is a different story.
That’s what I do, of course, but unless ATC has forgotten about me, they must have some expectation of what I’m going to do. Or they have, in fact, always forgotten about me when this happens..
If you’ve been cleared to a waypoint off your route and haven’t been cleared past it, a couple of minutes before the waypoint “request clearance after XYZ”.
So what would you propose instead?
Just because something has no obvious solution doesn’t mean I know of one 
Well, the obvious solution is to carry a handheld radio, preferably with a means of connecting to a rooftop antenna (easily done if e.g. your COM2 contains a loop in the panel so you can connect something into the antenna by unplugging the COM2 radio’s output – this is what I have) and then you get loads of range. Plus some means of looking up some frequency to call (a VFR or IFR chart would do).
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The USA are one country, you can’t compare that to Europe. Compare flying from Germany to France to flying from the USA to Mexico. Let’s see who is first to finish planning and taking off…
I don’t think anybody can pretend that setting 7600 and flying the filed route (with any national variation e.g. holding the last vector for 7 more mins) is a good idea – even if it was in your IR exam
So what would you propose instead?
And runways 27 have since been renamed 28…
Continental Drift? ;-)
Those SIDs probably did not exist back then…
And runways 27 have since been renamed 28…
