On 9/26/2005 12:18, Dave Butler wrote:

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.

Unfortunately, at least in my case, the instructor didn't present it
as a regional thing, so I received my rating with the belief that it's
a rule of IFR flight.

Of course, now that I understand there are issues like this, I can
look out for them, and not be too surprised when I'm hit with one ;-)

I never believed that getting my rating at one airport would prepare
me for flight at any airport. But it would be nice to have been told
these are local policies and not "rules" (note: I'm not referring to
FARs here...).


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Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Sacramento, CA