"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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I am not a CFI or even commercial rated (yet). I have had similar
situations where I fly. I've had approach chew me out because my IFR
plan had just expired (hey, who would have expected having to sit for
30 minutes waiting for 10 aircraft to land at a private field). Notice,
not a clearance, but flight plan. We were going to activate in the air
since it was VFR conditions. All we would have needed to do was contact
FSS and re-enter it. The CFII beside me had been a controller and told
me that the controller was out of line.


A proposed flight plan generally times out two hours after the proposed
departure time. Why didn't your ex-controller CFII prompt you to update
the
time before that?


Maybe there's a reason he's an EX controller.... :-)

Chip, ZTL