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Filing IFR in-flight
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| I was flying off-line recently, since there were no VATSIM controllers in
the area of the world where I was flying, and had a real problem with the AI
ATC.
I had clearance on an IFR flight plan from Dubai (OMDB) to East Midlands
(EGNX) but nipped out to sort my washing machine out, whilst flying over
Iran. When I came back, I found that ATC had been trying to contact me and
because there had been no response, they cancelled my IFR plan.
No problem I thought, I'll simply refile in flight. However, as soon as I
had readback my clearance and changed to the new squawk code, ATC then told
me to turn to a heading of 155deg, which was nearly180deg off where I wanted
to go, i.e. back the way I had come. I assumed at first that they would then
vector me back onto my route, but after heading the wrong way for over
10mins, I got fed up, cancelled IFR and turned back around. I tried again,
thinking I had done something wrong, but each time, I got the same response.
Am I doing something wrong? I thought it might be because the wrong leg was
active in the GPS flight plan (maybe ATC was trying to get me back onto
that?), so I made sure that the most appropriate leg was showing as active.
No difference.
Tim
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| Tim
Is it possible to prepare your flightplan from Dubai to East Midlands, go to
find route then manually delete waypoints / VORS that you have flown past
then say no when asked about moving aircraft to departure location. ATC is
probably a audio checklist of entire route and gets confused if joining it
in the middle somewhere.
Chris
"Tim" <void@invalidemail.com> wrote in message
news:7Qwue.11718$y57.3126@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
quote:
>I was flying off-line recently, since there were no VATSIM controllers in
>the area of the world where I was flying, and had a real problem with the
>AI ATC.
>
> I had clearance on an IFR flight plan from Dubai (OMDB) to East Midlands
> (EGNX) but nipped out to sort my washing machine out, whilst flying over
> Iran. When I came back, I found that ATC had been trying to contact me and
> because there had been no response, they cancelled my IFR plan.
>
> No problem I thought, I'll simply refile in flight. However, as soon as I
> had readback my clearance and changed to the new squawk code, ATC then
> told me to turn to a heading of 155deg, which was nearly180deg off where I
> wanted to go, i.e. back the way I had come. I assumed at first that they
> would then vector me back onto my route, but after heading the wrong way
> for over 10mins, I got fed up, cancelled IFR and turned back around. I
> tried again, thinking I had done something wrong, but each time, I got the
> same response.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? I thought it might be because the wrong leg
> was active in the GPS flight plan (maybe ATC was trying to get me back
> onto that?), so I made sure that the most appropriate leg was showing as
> active. No difference.
>
> Tim
>
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| Chris wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Tim
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> Is it possible to prepare your flightplan from Dubai to East
> Midlands, go to find route then manually delete waypoints / VORS that
> you have flown past then say no when asked about moving aircraft to
> departure location. ATC is probably a audio checklist of entire
> route and gets confused if joining it in the middle somewhere.
>
> Chris
>
> "Tim" <void@invalidemail.com> wrote in message
> news:7Qwue.11718$y57.3126@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
Interesting thought - I have just done a quick test and it does indeed seem
to work like that, unless it's just coincidence! Thanks very much for
suggesting it.
Tim
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