Matt Whiting wrote:
Dave Butler wrote:

This is an interesting thread. I'm based at a class C, RDU,
Raleigh-Durham, NC, and I've never had that happen, and I've never
informed tower that I was IFR. Never heard anyone else do it either.


Same here. Hard to believe that the tower wouldn't have some indication
of the flight plan type, but sounds like maybe not.

Must be one of those regional things. It seems some people always do it and
can't imagine how it would work if they didn't, and others (me) have never heard
of it.