How do you navigate using VORs while having an IFR flight plan?
Navigation using VORs is the same whether you are IFR or VFR. In a flight plan, a VOR is a reference point like any other. If you put VORs in your route in your IFR flight plan, you’ll be expected to fly them unless ATC tells you otherwise. If you are VFR, the route in your flight plan is just a general indication and you don’t have to exactly follow it. If your flight plan route shows a list of VORs, ATC will not vector you to them, it will simply clear you to them, and only then if it doesn’t clear you as filed. If you file SLI then PDZ, for example, ATC might tell you to fly runway heading, and climb and maintain 6000. Then, shortly after you depart, it might say cleared direct SLI, climb and maintain (your filed altitude). When ATC gives you an instruction, it overrides your flight plan. When it says “resume own navigation,” you switch back to your flight plan and fly that on your own. ATC will always direct you to a fix on your flight plan before telling you to resume your own nav
