While cruising at 18000 at over 300 kts., I was told by ATC to change heading due to traffic. I complied and a few minutes later heard "traffic no longer a factor" and something like "cross ?? at 250 kts.", or something like that. I assumed this was to return to my airway and although I didn't quite hear the point at which to cross, why was the speed 250 kts.? Sure enough I was told about my infraction I was well above 10000 ft and comfortably in cruise, well away from my destination. Does this ever happen in the real world where pilots have to bleed off good cruise speed to return to an airway? I never noticed this on a real flight. Thanks. :-wave

at the point this happened, you were probably 70 miles from your arrival airport.the whole phrase was "expect to cross 40 miles from xxx, at 10000, 250 knots"you don't have to do anything. it was just an alert of what is about to happen.how far was your last checkpoint from the arrival airport, curious?

jd,I was somewhere near the SLT VOR on the way to PIT when I was told deviate. My remaining checkpoints were CIP which is the transition for the Grace2 arrival, followed by GRACE, EARED, and then PIT. Thanks. :-)

Tom,The problem with that plan is that you have CLARION (CIP) VOR as your last real waypoint, 70.6 miles from the Pittsburg airport.RC needs the last waypoint to be a VOR or NDB - and as close to the field as possible.You need to add the PIT VOR to the plan as your last waypoint (before KPIT).You should get "Cross 40 miles from PIT at 10,000', 250 knots." at about the CIP VOR.See of that helps.

Thanks Scott. Regards, Tom :-wave