Andrew Gideon wrote:
Newps wrote:


But I suspect that it does help, in that it would be the odd IFR pilot
who could depart w/o a squawk. If the tower cleared me for t/o w/o
giving me a squawk, I'd ask. This forces the particular operator to know
that it's an IFR departure.

No?

Not having a transponder code doesn't mean you aren't IFR.


Of course not.


It's simply
a gimmick by the tower to try and prevent an operational error.


I'm not likely to forget I'm IFR, even of the tower operator does (or hasn't
been informed, perhaps). I'm also not likely to take off IFR w/o a squawk.

Nobody's worried about you forgetting you're IFR, all this is about a
VFR tower launching an IFR aircraft into the system and the pilot is the
only one who knows he's IFR. That's bad.