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Old February 20th 10, 05:49 PM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Steven P. McNicoll
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On Feb 20, 1:46*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
A Guy Called Tyketto writes:

You can already do that with VFR w/flight following.


Not if you have to fly through clouds to get to your cruising altitude. While
you have the option of cancelling IFR once you are in VMC, ATC is not required
to provide flight following, whereas it is required to accommodate IFR.


Required to accommodate IFR? If traffic or SUA does not allow the
issuance of that IFR clearance to climb through the clouds it's not
going to be issued.