Steven P. McNicoll ) wrote:


If you call FSS for the clearance, FSS then has to call ATC.
If you call ATC directly you skip the middle man.

If only all controllers provided this exemplary service. One time last
summer, I overheard two different GA aircraft within a few minutes of each
other attempt to pick up their IFR clearances while in the air inside
Philadelphia Approach's airspace.

The controller, after hearing the second request, asked what is going on
here, then proceeded to lecture all listening that IFR aircraft should be
contacting flight service for clearances when in the air.

The controller then answered the second aircraft and told him to do just
that, then returned to servicing all other aircraft under his control.


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Peter












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