Dan Luke wrote:
"Emily" wrote:

The special VFR hint:

The weather is 1500 broken, and 2 1/2 miles when the Private Pilot
calls ground and announces "Taxi to the active with Hotel...".
The guy working ground comes back with "Weather 1500broken, 2 1/2 in
fog, the field is IFR, is there anything "SPECIAL" I can do for you?
I once sat behind a guy in a 172 who just didn't get it. Ground finally
told him to shut down and go inside and ask someone what it meant when he
asked if there was anything special he could do.


If I were a controller, there's no way in hell I would do this.

Why would I want my voice on tape helping some clueless twit figure out how
to kill himself?

Maybe the controllers here can clue us in, but that's why they can't
offer a special VFR clearance. After all, if they ask if there's
anything special they can do, it's hard to prove they meant to hint at a
special VFR clearance.

I was leaving IFR in my above story, btw...no way would I have gone VFR.