If you're on BID, call PVD approach and get flight following, you can
talk them on the ground (RCO)120.1 which is a clearance delivery freq
but if you tell them you're headed over to Long Island if they don't
give you a squawk then and there at least they will expect you when you
do call them. PVD approach are about the nicest and most accommodating
approach controllers in the northeast.

Kev wrote:
Robert Chambers wrote:

Nobody uses the long island reporting service. You ask for and get
flight following, it's much more real-time than the LIRS which the FSS
provides.


One note is that they don't always hear you when you take off from
Block Island. I left there one dark night to fly home via Montauk, and
the FSS didn't hear me until I was half-way across. If I did it
again, I'd circle to gain altitude before leaving the island and
crossing the water... for both radio and engine-glide range.

Kev