"Howard Nelson" wrote in message .com...
Here on the California coast were stratus can force an IFR departure to
about 2000ft I ask for an "IFR departure for climb to VFR conditions" with a
clearance from my field to a VOR about 20NM away. Well before I am more than
5 miles from my departure I am above the fog and can cancel IFR and ask for
VFR flight following.
Howard
C182P


That's the exact same thing. The phrase you used is the same as an IFR
clearance up "to VFR on top". I live in the Sacramento valley and we
get the same fog you get, but just in the winter rather than the
summer.

-Robert