Stan Gosnell wrote:


If you want it treated *exactly* like IFR, then file IFR.
Controllers don't know if you're an instructor training a
student, or just playing around, or what if you're VFR. If
you're IFR, then they have to do everything by the IFR book,
regardless of the weather. Do you feel that filing and flying
IFR is really that difficult, or restrictive, when teaching?

When I used to be a CFI-I (gad, I glad those days are behind me ;-) we
never, ever requested a VFR restriction during training. If, sometimes,
the controller would issue one we would request an IFR clearance. And,
in my early days at the airline, when we had to take 6-month checks in
the aircraft, company policy was IFR, period. But, some check pilots
would violate that policy to expedite things. Scud running in a 727 at
5:00 AM over the hills southeast of KONT isn't a whole lot of fun.