Activating a flight plan
Hello all,
My flying instructor says that once you submit a flight plan, it doesn't really give anyone prior notice of your impending arrival or whatever it may be unless you activate it by calling ATS.
For example you submit a flight plan departing from a non controlled aerodrome, you should then contact Brisbane Centre (for example) saying that you have filed a flight plan and would like it to be activated.
I can't find this anywhere in the AIP and after I am taught something I always comb the regs looking for evidence.
Thanks