"Matthew S. Whiting" wrote in message
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Go back and read it again. I never said you were wrong.


Okay. I went back and read it again. I said no action is taken by the
controller to close a flight plan. You said if the controller discards the
strip manually, then that is taking an action.



But you didn't say why. Sorry, but I seldom accept "it is right because
I say so" as a viable answer without knowing the why.


But I did say why. Go back and read it again.



Because there were replies that suggested that there was nothing.


Odd that I didn't see them.



No, I understand that something happens (a flight strip must me manually
removed from in front of the controller), and this something is
sufficient to ensure that an overdue IFR flight is detected in a
reasonable time frame.


That happens with departure and overflight strips as well.



It was the insistence on your part that nothing
happened and nothing needed to happen that kept this thread going.


Well, that's the way it is, but you're free to believe whatever you choose.



This is pretty disengenuous when you knew that something does
happen. Then again, I know from past experience that you love to
argue over trivia...
:-)


So how are IFR arrivals differentiated from IFR departures and overflights
if the strips are treated the same?