[sirshackleton]

Fortunately, I never had to deal with such folks in ATC. I was also pretty good with readbacks and the radio in general. But I will concur that it seems like you get routed in very strange directions sometimes. I used to just tell myself it was some sort of weird traffic phenomenon that was occurring at the time to keep myself smiling through it.

[dalereed]

"But I will concur that it seems like you get routed in very strange directions sometimes."

Prefile at least an hour before departure and you will get a lot better routing.

The only time I got really bad routing was a bad storm over the rockies and I sat in Santa Fe for 3 hours to get a clearance and then it was Taos, over the top because everyone was filing for up the valley. Taking on ice @ 140 in a Saratoga is a little unnerving.