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Are "Popups" A Hassle?
Mike Teague wrote:
Does ATC reserve airspace for an un-activated IFR flightplan? or not until you call for clearance? No airspace is reserved until a clearance is issued. |
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Are "Popups" A Hassle?
I know one pilot who would say a pop-up was a hassle:-))
A few years back I was IFR from 3BS to OSH about two weeks before the fly-in. Most of Michigan was socked in and I mean right down to ILS minimums and controllers were busier than the proverbial one arm paper hanger with an itch. I was just barely on top, nearing the eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan and talking to Minneapolis Center. A King Air out of an airport NE of Traverse City "popped up" on frequency and called center 4 or 5 times. He tried to file and Center curtly told him to come back after calling FSS and filing a pop-up. As I said, Michigan was socked in. This guy had to have climbed up through at least 5,000 feet of weather where you were lucky to see your own wing tips and you could hear the tension in his voice. Some where between 5 and 10 minutes later he came back on frequency and told center he could not raise FSS from his altitude. (maybe he really was scud running, but most of the state had ceilings well less than 500 feet. The southern half was lucky to have 200 and people were going missed on ILSs. That would *certainly* account for the tension in his voice) At any rate that time center took the time to let him file and gave him a clearance. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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Are "Popups" A Hassle?
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message oups.com... Steve, Could it be a lost comm issue? Perhaps controllers don't want to issue IFR clearances with clearance limits that are not airports? I'm still not sure why it would be different for VFR-on-top though. You'd have to ask a controller that's unwilling to issue such a clearance. I am not one of them. |
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Are "Popups" A Hassle?
"Mike Teague" wrote in message ... Does ATC reserve airspace for an un-activated IFR flightplan? No. |
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Are "Popups" A Hassle?
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On 26 Oct 2005 13:12:40 -0700, wrote: I know locally there's a company that flies checks each morning. Really? I thought all the check flying guys were put out of business by the new banking regulations requiring images. Not out of business yet, but definitely in decline. Some are trying to diversify into same-day package delivery. |
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