Originally Posted by A Squared
If they don’t issue a clearence, you are free to depart VFR, but it is incumbent on you to maintain VFR cloud clearances until such time that you can get an IFR clearance.
I'd have thought it would be
more incumbent of one to find out the location of and avoid the aircraft that's preventing one getting a clearance. Or are does one just blast on up looking out the window?