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and another thing...

how does one know that in CSTN1,
CST == coast

I haven't seen it in writing anywhere, not in the AFD afiak.
Is it a local knowledge kind of thing?

Follow up q:
When referring to Cstn1, Does one say...
See-es-tee-en-wun
Or
Charlie sierra tango November wun
?

Totally helps.
Thank you.

Thanks for the replies.
What mudhen says makes sense too me.
I was actually given this advice by a rw cfi casually(not while acting as my cfi).
Like 'hey, if you ever need to get atc attention and the radio is super busy, just ident. they'll see whats up and give you your belated instructions'. My ...

I just passed the i3, but am confused about how to use TEC routes.
Are we supposed to file and/or refer to TEC routes by Name, or explode them into the full route sequence?
If full route, how is this different than simply filing a historically preferred route?
I noticed in Kevin Smith's video that ...

Is it ever ok to ident without being requested to by atc?

Like say you've been vectored towards a localizer, or radial, or are approaching a class b boundary.
Radio traffic is busy, can't get a word in, about to blow by your target.

Seems an ident would get the controllers attention without ...