In a previous article, "Denny" said:
I speak AIM fluently...
There is a turf war between the controllers union and the privatized
FSS.. All the AIM manuals in the world will not get ATC to
cooperate..

Except what you are describing is the way VFR flight plans have worked for
at least 10 years before FSS was privatized.

Boy, those ATC guys are amazing if they could have predicted that FSS
would be privatized 10 years before it happened!

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