Roy Smith wrote:
"Paul Safran" wrote:


I seem to have read or been told once that,
one can file an IFR flightplan with remark for
VFR flight conditions when not instrument rated,
or current, to get routing and practice within the system.
Comments?


Absolutely not. You can certainly get flight following, and follow
airways, and fly under the hood (with a safety pilot) and ask for
practice approaches, but if the PIC isn't instrument rated and current,
you absolutely cannot file an IFR flight plan, or accept an IFR
clearance, or go into weather conditions which do not meet VFR
requirements.

You cannot act as PIC on an IFR flight plan or accept an IFR clearance without
an instrument rating. There is no prohibition against -filing- an IFR flight plan.

There was an extensive thread here (or in one of the r.a.* groups) about how to
file a flight plan for a VFR flight and get your proposal strip into all the
relevant controllers' hands by checking the "IFR" box on the flight plan form,
then coding "VFR/altitude" in the altitude block. Google for it. I've used it
and it works for me. I have an instrument rating, but it seems legal to me even
if I didn't.

Dave
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