"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Being told by the Class D tower controller to follow the Arrow in to land
isn't being "cleared"?
No, it's not, for two reasons:
1.) A clearance contains the word "cleared".
Not always. Taxi clearances don't (AIM 4-3-18a5). Also, once you've been
cleared into Class B, don't subsequent vectors or altitude assignments
constitute clearances, even though they don't say "cleared"?
If you're getting flight following and a Class B approach controller tells
you to fly a heading and altitude which would in fact take you into the
Class B, would that constitute a clearance? I've been taught it would not
(and I'd always ask the controller to confirm clearance into Class B), but I
see nothing in the FARs or the AIM that says whether or not such an
instruction (even without "cleared to") constitutes a clearance; I see
nothing there that says a clearance contains the word "cleared" (even though
I assume that's the case, except for taxi clearances and revisions to
previous clearances).
--Gary
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