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Comment thread "Don't depart IFR on a VFR day!" for Essex County Airport

Comments 1 to 2 of 2 in the thread "Don't depart IFR on a VFR day!" (Essex County Airport):

I must have tied up traffic for 30 minutes of more waiting at the entrance for my IFR clearance. I'd taxied out after being told to, but there were 4 or 5 planes waiting behind me and by the time I suddenly realized that I could depart VFR and pick up a clearance later, the clearance had actually come. I felt like a complete dick.

Mon, 07 Apr 2008
re: Don't depart IFR on a VFR day!
 

I had exactly the same experience at Republic in spring 2004, right down to sitting on the runway (as instructed by tower) and holding everyone else up. Same lesson -- if you can take a VFR departure out of a NY-area airport, do. It's the controller's error putting you on the runway before your clearance is ready, but why invite trouble in the first place?