"Greg Esres" wrote in message
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Dave, in my opinion what you are describing isn't exactly an IFR
flightplan.

Your co-worker, Don Brown, is hostile towards the procedure for just
this reason. He says that an IFR sqwawk code gets reserved for these
flight plans and sometimes center runs out.

Codes are codes. Centers use the same codes for VFR as for IFR. In the
TRACON we use separate VFR codes and IFR codes.