As a VFR/IFR pilot operating in and out of Class C airspace all the time, you guys have me wondering if I am working in the same system as you!
As a regular low-level IFR operator, I find the regulations regarding the IFR visual departure uneccessarily restrictive
anti casa - Please explain? When I depart on an IFR flightplan and am given a Visual Departure - I depart visually, but if given an IF Departure I fly that! Apart from a bit of a scramble to find the departure plate, what's the big deal?
It *frequently* happens for me that I'm zooming along and very quickly come up upon some cloud and it sometimes happens quite quickly
XXX - I zoom along as quickly as most but I can't say I have ever had a cloud sneek up on me without time to request a level or track change - but maybe things are a bit quiter up here!
Dr 