I have a routing question. Say you want to fly a very short route between 2 class Bravo airports - I’m thinking KEWR to KJFK. With them being right next to one another, what would be the best/correct way to file your route? Say it is VFR conditions. Would you file VFR with flight following, or should you file IFR direct, and assume the controller will vector you to the active approach?
While you could go VFR between the two fields, as you’d need Class B clearance for both fields, there may be TEC (Tower Enroute Control) routes from one field to the other. someone from ZNY would know more, but I’d also start with checking ZNY’s website for those routes, as they would be available there.
BL.
Good advice. Thank you. I will poke around on ZNY’s website. I thought about TEC routes, however didn’t see any at a glance on the VFR map.
This has been done in the real world, even with jets. They file and fly VFR. They also have the unusual experience of being handed from tower to tower.
File direct and expect vectors, as that’s what you’d get for the entire flight anyway.
Not necessarily true. If they have TEC routes available for that route, you could fly the TEC route as those are established routing, and not really requiring vectors except for being sequenced into the arrival stream. That is the purpose of TEC routes.
BL.
Correct. From the instant your wheels leave the ground in EWR, you’d be being sequenced into the arrivals stream. New York is some rather busy airspace 
. You’d be on vectors for the entire flight, and you’d be cleared to JFK via radar vectors because no controller would even bother pretending otherwise haha.
I’m talking about reality; things could obviously be fairly less busy on Vatsim. If it were me though, I’m still just filing for radar vectors, since that’s what you’d expect in reality.
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