PIPER COMANCHE INCORRECTLY FLIES A DIRECT COURSE TO DEST AFTER ACKNOWLEDGING CLRNC ON VICTOR AIRWAYS.

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ON A FLT FROM OLIVE BRANCH; MS; TO HEBER SPRINGS; AR. ON CLBOUT; THE CTLR ASKED ME FOR MY ON COURSE HDG. I WAS FILED AND CLRED TO ZIVNY; V124 TAFTE. I TOLD HIM MY HDG ON COURSE FOR DIRECT HEBER SPRINGS. HE CLRED ME ON MY HDG OF 287 DEGS. SUBSEQUENTLY; HE STEERED ME TO A HDG OF 270 DEGS TO EXIT THE WESTERN MEM GATE. HE THEN CLRED ME BACK ON COURSE. I AGAIN TOOK UP A DIRECT HDG TO HEBER; STILL MISTAKENLY THINKING I WAS CLRED DIRECT HEBER. THE ON COURSE HDG AND COURSE WOULD HAVE BEEN 241 DEGS TO INTERCEPT V124 SW OF MEM ENRTE TO TFC (AS I WAS FILED). HE CALLED AND ASKED ME HOW I HAD BEEN CLRED. WE TALKED AND DISCOVERED I HAD NOT BEEN CLRED DIRECT TO HEBER SPRINGS. HE THEN DID CLR ME DIRECT AND STATED NO CONFLICTS HAD ARISEN. HE JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHERE I HAD GOTTEN THE IDEA THAT I HAD BEEN CLRED DIRECT. I APOLOGIZED FOR MY CONFUSION. IT WAS MY FAULT FOR ASSUMING THE DIRECT TO HEBER CLRNC. IN THE PAST; I HAD ASKED FOR DIRECT TO HEBER AFTER TAKING OFF AND HAD ALWAYS BEEN APPROVED. WHEN HE ASKED FOR MY ON COURSE HDG; I WRONGLY ASSUMED HE CLRED ME AT THAT TIME DIRECT TO HEBER SPRINGS.