"Arden Prinz" wrote in message
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Steven,

Once told to memain clear you must remain clear until the controller
issues an instruction that permits entry.

I sort of thought that when the controller called me by tail number
and said radar contact (and didn't say remain clear), that would
constitute a communication that permits entry.


It does, unless the controller instructs you to remain clear of the Class C
airspace, as was the case here.



But you wrote:

... entering without an explicit instruction that
permitted entry, such as "proceed on course" or "fly heading xxx", would
be
a violation ...

What determines which communications permit entry? Can you point me
to a reference in the FAR or AIM? Do say "proceed on course", but
how is that an explicit instruction to enter the class C airspace? I
would think "cleared to enter class C airspace" would be an explicit
instruction, but I certainly never hear that because I didn't think
that was necessary for class C, only class B. I don't understand why
you think "proceed on course" is an explicit instruction that permits
entry. (It certainly wouldn't be explicit if we were talking about
class B.) Again, a reference to something that would help be know
exactly which communications constituted explicit instruction to enter
vs. not would help me for the future.


The last instruction issued by ATC in this case was "remain clear of the
Class C airspace. That instruction remains in effect until overridden by
another instruction. How can it be any other way? If you were IFR and
assigned eight thousand, at what point can you descend to six thousand?