Ray Bengen wrote:

In reality, you need to file an IFR flight plan with a FSS; you then get
your code either on the ground or in the air BEFORE you penetrate the TFR;
and you can just fly VFR, wx permitting of course. You don't have to get
and fly a clearance. Just do what ATC tells you to do when you're in the
TFR.

With the NY TRACON, at least, you file a VFR flight plan and you tell them that it's
for the purposes of the TFR (you don't need the search procedure if you fail to show
up). They will take care of it from there. My understanding is that they enter it as
a pseudo-IFR flight plan to get it in the system, but that's their problem/solution.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.