IFR Cancellation Question

Newps wrote:

Really, then how does the system know you landed and not crashed on
approach?

The tower will know if you landed. What did you think happened?


I don't know how it happens, but the requirement is that they're
supposed to notice whether I have arrived at my destination not
whether I was handed off by approach. This means one of two
things:

1. Tower must tell the system that I've landed.
2. Tower must tell the system that I haven't landed.

Ron Natalie wrote:

Really, then how does the system know you landed and not crashed on
approach?


If the tower sees you on the runway they know you didn't crash on
approach.

A Lieberma wrote:

Ok, makes sense on the radar services being terminated, but the IFR
clearance still applies for airspace seperation?


Still IFR.



IFR would be then cancelled once wheels touch ground???


IFR is cancelled upon landing.

A Lieberma wrote:
Newps wrote in
:


Approach can do both. It depends on the service they are able to
provide.


For VFR handling, I would agree with the above, though in my neck of the
woods, I have never heard approach tell VFR traffic to squawk VFR and
expect them to contact tower on their own.

That is a regional thing. Some places are famous for terminating
aircraft very close to a class D boundary.




For IFR handling, approach would hold me to tower frequency and
cancellation of IFR is terminated once wheels touch terra firma is what I
was lead to believe. Surely they wouldn't (or couldn't) terminate radar
services before having me contact tower at a controlled airport?

Sure they can. If they don't have radar coverage they will terminate you.