Flying Thru Congested Areas

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"O. Sami Saydjari" wrote in message
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So, would it be poor form to get an ifr clearance to get above whatever
cloud layer at your departure airport....fly VFR when you are on
top....then pickup an on-the-fly IFR again 100 miles or so before your
destinatation airport if you needed to descend back down through a cloud
layer?


It's poor form if you don't file the flight plans before requesting the
IFR
clearances, otherwise no problem.



He would need two flight plans for this, right? One to get up, one to get
back down.

If instead, he requested VFR-on-top, do you think he could generally get
the routing he wanted? I mean what would ATC generally do with a request
like "N123 request VFR-on-top 7500 direct XYZ VOR, otherwise I'd like to
cancel IFR and request VFR advisories".

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

"John Clonts" wrote in message
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He would need two flight plans for this, right? One to get up, one to get
back down.


Yup.



If instead, he requested VFR-on-top, do you think he could generally get
the routing he wanted? I mean what would ATC generally do with a request
like "N123 request VFR-on-top 7500 direct XYZ VOR, otherwise I'd like to
cancel IFR and request VFR advisories".


Assuming the controller isn't baffled by the request, and he's not heading
somewhere a preferential routing applies, he should be told to climb and
maintain VFR-on-top and report reaching it and also be cleared direct XYZ
VOR.