Filing Flight Plan and Clearance
Geetting ready to take a flight over to mainland europe in a couple weeks, now I went and spent some time on the CFMU site and have a route picked out and I will file IFR (yes I have a full IR rating and I fly a single engine plane), I guess I will file with Heathrow again. But here is my main question, the airport I fly from has a tower but they will not issue an IFR clearance. and the airway entry is like 20NM from the airport, so I will get to it before I even get to altitude and way before that 10 minutes stated.
So with all my calling and looking and reading Ihave done, there is no provision in the UK for me to call ??? and get my clearance before leaving the ground in another words getting my clearance with a clearance void time? I will have to call London radio after takeoff and get the clearance somehow before reaching the intersection? tell me this isn't true. Thanks in advance