In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:
Mr. Tomblin said he files IFR because somebody else closes the flight plan
that way. Most fields do not have control towers.

The ones I fly IFR to almost all do. And when I'm flying into
podunk-ville, so far the approach controller giving me a phone number is
sufficient memory prod that I haven't failed to call on my cell phone
while taxing to the tie downs.


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Nazis are part of *every* government, everywhere, in all of human
history. They're just not always called that.
-- J.D. Baldwin