Over the years, I made several Bonanza trips from home base in New Jersey to EAA AirVenture. Without an IFR-certified GPS, I would flight plan to hopscotch along airways from VOR to VOR supplemented with my portable Garmin GPSmap396 for situational awareness. But I always expected to stick with the airways as a prudent IFR pilot should with "/U" on the flight plan. My first fuel stop was Sandusky, Ohio, about four or five of those airway doglegs down the road.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/short-final-new-york-state-of-mind