Start Clearance?
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Start Clearance?
ATC guys, I have a question for you.....What is the actual purpose of calling ATC for a start clearance? Politeness? Common courtesy? Where can I find the rules and regs for it?
I hear fixed wing and helos ask for it when thay are both flying under VFR and IFR and at airports within controlled airspace and at aerodromes with just an ATZ???
Anyone enlighten me?
Many thanks,
Fatigue.
I hear fixed wing and helos ask for it when thay are both flying under VFR and IFR and at airports within controlled airspace and at aerodromes with just an ATZ???
Anyone enlighten me?
Many thanks,
Fatigue.
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If you're in a non-radar environment, it gives approach a few minutes to sort things out for you.
Also, if you're going trans-atlantic and departing from somewhere close to your entry point, we used to have to get your clearance from Shannon before allowing start. Don't know if that still applies.
Also, if you're going trans-atlantic and departing from somewhere close to your entry point, we used to have to get your clearance from Shannon before allowing start. Don't know if that still applies.
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And the crowd pleaser......non sched. flight calls for taxi as first call. Nothing could cause a delay at my sleepy airfield right? CAVOK and no tfc.
All true.......but the radar systems failure in Germany kind of gave him a bit of a CTOT for his flight to Turkey.......5 hrs delayed.
Me thinks it cost a bit of fuel to crank the old rusty IL76, only to shut it down again.
All true.......but the radar systems failure in Germany kind of gave him a bit of a CTOT for his flight to Turkey.......5 hrs delayed.
Me thinks it cost a bit of fuel to crank the old rusty IL76, only to shut it down again.
