"Howard Nelson" wrote in message .com...
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message

Here on the California coast were stratus can force an IFR departure to
about 2000ft I ask for an "IFR departure for climb to VFR conditions" with a
clearance from my field to a VOR about 20NM away. Well before I am more than
5 miles from my departure I am above the fog and can cancel IFR and ask for
VFR flight following.
Howard
C182P

I've done the same. Unfortuntely he said he could not issue a
clearance unless it was to my dest. Perhaps I could have change my
dest to some place local but that would have seemed strange when
asking to climb from 2,000 feet to 5,000 feet. Perhaps it had
something to do with the class B in the area.


-Robert