(Stimbo) wrote:
I don't remember how long the IFR plan stays active in the system (3
hours?) before it's dropped.

I think that's true once it hits the FAA computers, but if you file
through DUATS, the flight plan stays in the DUATS system until something
like 1 hour before the P-time, then it gets transmitted to the FAA. So
that may be a way around that problem.

Of course, it's utterly absurd that we should have to go to these
contortions to get flight plans in the system when we want them. We've
passed the point where desktop PC's have more memory than the FAA
computers. We're now at the point where iPods have more.