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Christopher C. Stacy wrote: When he gave you the clearance for the approach, did he say "Maintain VFR?" If not, you were really IFR. Who taught you that? IFR by osmosis, that sure would help to unclutter the frequency sometimes. |
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Robert M. Gary wrote:
Word games aside, Steven is right. The difference between being IFR and VFR in controlled airspace is being told "cleared to foobar". -Robert The system is designed to process a formally filed IFR flight plan from one airport to another. The formal tower-en route program in Southern California works, too, because it is formalized. Pop-ups without a filed flight plan, and local training flights sometimes get mishandled because, unlike the foregoing, they just aren't in the "system" in a formal sense. |
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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Christopher C. Stacy" wrote in message ... When he gave you the clearance for the approach, did he say "Maintain VFR?" If not, you were really IFR. No. You're really IFR when you hear "Cleared to..." I once requested a practice approach with a student, and the controller asked if I wanted to do it VFR or IFR. I replied that I preferred VFR, and he gave me an altitude to climb to. I told him that if he wanted us there, we'd have to do it IFR. His response? "Ok, you're IFR then. Climb and maintain 5000." It's really hard to teach correct phraseology to a student with instructions like that. Student and I had a really long talk on the ground later. |
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Doug wrote:
I was once told, just outside the FAF "the approach is APPROVED, radar services TERMINATED". And yes kiddies I was in a cloud. (He musta been a supervisor :-) At my home airport, we had radar service terminated all the time. Radar didn't reach below 3000 feet or so and they (usually) let us know when they couldn't pick us up anymore. We were still IFR. |
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"Emily" wrote in message ... At my home airport, we had radar service terminated all the time. Radar didn't reach below 3000 feet or so and they (usually) let us know when they couldn't pick us up anymore. We were still IFR. The phraseology for loss of radar contact is "radar contact lost", not "radar service terminated". |
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-----Original Message----- From: Steven P. McNicoll ] Posted At: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:53 PM Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr Conversation: Silly controller Subject: Silly controller .... The phraseology for loss of radar contact is "radar contact lost", not "radar service terminated". Steve, Do they still advise "radar contact lost, radar service terminated, cleared for the approach..."? I seem to remember getting that when I used to go into Gunnison, Co. years ago. |
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My best "silly controller" was back in 1981-82 with a new
hire working the Topeka, Kansas Forbes Airport. I checked in IFR about 20 miles from the airport and he gave me the weather, "Forbes 600 overcast, visibility 4 miles, cleared for the visual approach." After waiting a few seconds I replied, "If it really is 600 over, can I have the ILS?" It had been severe clear for days, I guess he'd just gotten used to that clearance. -- James H. Macklin ATP,CFI,A&P "Jim Carter" wrote in message news:004301c6c98f$b7d9d310$4001a8c0@omnibook6100.. . | | | -----Original Message----- | From: Steven P. McNicoll ] | Posted At: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:53 PM | Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr | Conversation: Silly controller | Subject: Silly controller | | | ... | | The phraseology for loss of radar contact is "radar contact lost", not | "radar service terminated". | | Steve, | Do they still advise "radar contact lost, radar service | terminated, cleared for the approach..."? I seem to remember getting | that when I used to go into Gunnison, Co. years ago. | |
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"Robert M. Gary" writes:
Christopher C. Stacy wrote: "Steven P. McNicoll" writes: "Christopher C. Stacy" wrote in message ... When he gave you the clearance for the approach, did he say "Maintain VFR?" If not, you were really IFR. No. You're really IFR when you hear "Cleared to..." Like in, "Cleared for the ILS runway 23 at Foobar maintain 2000 until established" ? Or "Cleared to Land" Word games aside, Steven is right. The difference between being IFR and VFR in controlled airspace is being told "cleared to foobar". The instruction "Cleared for the ILS runway 23 at Foobar maintain 2000 until established" contains "cleared", a route (which is even a charted IFR procedure), an altitude, and a clearance limit (landing Foobar airport, or executing the published missed approach procedure). How is that not an IFR clearance? I think it is, unless the controller adds the words "maintain VFR". When I want a practice approach and the controller fails to say "VFR", I add it back in to try and make sure, like: "Cherokee 97R cleared for the ILS 29 maintain VFR". |
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