On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:26:01 -0400, Kevin Clarke
wrote in :

Did you guys realize they can't give you a briefing for a
local flight? You have to go somewhere. BHB-BHB doesn't count as a
flight. At least that was what I was told. But I digress.

That shouldn't be. A pilot needs to know weather trends and TFRs for
local flights as well as cross country.

Anyway, yesterday the Ops Mgr from BDR called me as a followup and went
thru all this with me. He was very helpful and wanted to get things
right, which I thought was great. He commented that asking me to depart
VFR was a big no-no and that the frequency they gave me for BOS was also
wrong. Anyway, I'm waiting to hear the resolution but wanted to share
that the system of follow thru anyway is working and some of the folks
there are trying to make this FSS debacle right.

It will be interesting to see if your conclusion is warranted when we
learn how this issue was resolved. Did you note the contact
information for the Ops Mgr from BDR, so you can follow up in the
event he doesn't get back to you?