"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"David Brooks" wrote in message
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Here's where I, and I suspect many others, have the hole in our
understanding. Isn't the flight plan in some FAA computers somewhere?


It may be, or it may have already timed out.



And doesn't some record need to be deleted?


No, it doesn't need to be deleted. If it's still in the computer it will
time out shortly. Remember, you've reached the destination airport.
You're
at the end of the line. There's nobody to relay any information to.


Ok, the closest I can get to the ATC computers is what I see reported on
fboweb flight tracking. (Thanks for the explanation of the routing codes
you gave me before). Sometimes at the end of the flight it displays a
status of "Timed out". Other times "Canceled". Other times it displays
"Arrived". So what is it that a controller does to the ATC computer to
cause it to go into an "Arrived" state?

Thanks,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ