Hello!

Servus Bernhard,

you better do a search of the forum to locate the thread where this has been discussed before. I have included ICAO rules and guidelines which definitely say that the published names of reporting points (regardless of VFR or IFR) are preferred over coordinates. This is like specifying coordinates for your departure airport rather than giving its ICAO identifier.

Tschüs, --Chris.

I have included ICAO rules and guidelines which definitely say that the published names of reporting points (regardless of VFR or IFR) are preferred over coordinates.

Certainly published names of significant points are preferable to coordinates. Geographical names are not allowed at all in ATS flight plans. If some ARO prefers geographical names over coordinates, then it is a local rule and used (I guess) in countries where VFR flight plans are not entered into the ATC computer systems.