Originally Posted by
LookingForAJob
Well, back in my day it could have be a procedural clearance. You know......'cleared to transit from X to Y, not above 3000ft, VFR'.
Maybe these days fewer controllers are able to do this for some reason, or maybe there is too much traffic in some places for this to be a practical proposition, or maybe there is a tendency to over-control. Some of this is tongue-in-cheek, but not all of it.
That's a vfr clearance, the aircraft would still be under a radar control service (or an approach control service if in CAS from a non radar unit)