keepitrunning wrote:
This is my first post to this rec.aviation.piloting so forgive me if this
has been discussed before.

A friend of mine who is IFR rated said there used to be a term called tower
to tower to allow for an IFR clearance from one towered airport to another.
This type of clearance wasn't as complicated as a full blown clearance. He
thought that the name had been changed or that it was now called something
else. I googled some but could not find any reference and not being IFR
myself have no clue.


Tower Enroute Clearance. There's essentially two flavors of this.
In California it is as you describe. They have special TEC routes
published.

In the northeast the publications call it Tower Enroute, but essentially
it's just the routling you get at low levels in the overlapping airspaces.