Originally Posted by
PAPI-74
Well I have been working a freq (which one escapes me - too many) and heard someone pass a flightplan over the radio. It took quite sometime and several transmissions, blocking the freq. The controller has to record all of the flight's details from endurance, equipment etc... He was not best pleased.
I suspect that was either
A - someone on an international flight that forgot/failed to file a flightplan
B - someone attempting to airfile an 'airways ifr plan' due either to worse than expected weather or ATC being unable to find the filed plan
In either event, hopefully it was an info frequency rather than a controller as that is one of the things Info is supposed to do.
The flightplan to cross some bit of Class D is just as Fuji says - quick and painless.