Jay Beckman wrote:

So, welcome to the new Lockheed/Martin world order...

I don't know if it's because of the change to Lockheed-Martin -- I had
the same thing happen to me once in the U.S. a year or so ago (I think
it was at Teterboro), before the switch. I imagine that the specialist
has a big list of calls to make and just wants to get through them
early sometimes.

In defense of FSS, I have accidentally made them call around for real
in the U.S. In Canada, towered airports (almost always) will close a
VFR flight plan for you automatically, since tower will automatically
have a copy of any incoming VFR flight plans; as a result, it's easy
for a Canadian pilot to forget to close a flight plan when landing at a
towered field in the U.S. I'm pretty good at remembering now, but it
took some practice, and caused U.S. FSS some bother (it's easier to
remember at untowered airports).


All the best,


David