Gary Drescher wrote:

wrote in message ...
The reason I ask about the phone is because you could have opted to cancel
IFR
and then do whatever you wanted to do to get in and land.

In the absence of radio or phone contact, can you unilaterally cancel IFR
and inform ATC after you land?

--Gary

For non-commercial operations I don't see why not. But, it's not clean and
someone may say it was wrong to hold the airspace when you had "cancelled" as a
state of mind. Or, some might argue that a cancellation does not take effect
until ATC acknowledges its receipt.

Murky waters but I suspect the not-for-hire pilot would prevail in any
enforcement proceeding. It's more of an issue of ATC policy as opposed to
regulations, per se.