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Old December 10th 06, 05:25 AM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
John T
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Default Flight Following question

"A Lieberma" wrote in message
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Or you can just file an ATC flight plan
for VFR flight following. That automatically puts you into the
system.


Filing VFR flight plan DOES NOT put you in the system. It's only for
search and rescue, nothing more.

You don't activate the flight plan with ATC, but with FSS on a VFR
flight plan.


You're both right.

A traditional VFR flight plan is as you describe, but it is also possible to
file a flight plan for VFR flight in the ATC system. In fact, this is
exactly what happens for every VFR flight in the Washington DC ADIZ.

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