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Where should i request for IFR clearance when there is no clearance ATC active?


Gergo Kaszas
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Gergo Kaszas
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Rookie question, but i want to be sure about it, before i make my first IFR flight.

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Nick Marinov
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Hi Gergo,

If no ATC is online, you would just depart without a clearance and follow a SID for your filed route. Once you get to pushing back, you need to go to UNICOM 122.800 and announce your intentions and movements and coordinate with other traffic around you. Hope this helps! 😄 

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Gergo Kaszas
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51 minutes ago, Nick Marinov said:

Hi Gergo,

If no ATC is online, you would just depart without a clearance and follow a SID for your filed route. Once you get to pushing back, you need to go to UNICOM 122.800 and announce your intentions and movements and coordinate with other traffic around you. Hope this helps! 😄 

Hi!
Thanks for the fast answer! I meant, that there is tower and ground control to. But there is no clearance frequency active. Then should i request IFR clearance on ground frequency?

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Just now, Gergo Kaszas said:

Hi!
Thanks for the fast answer! I meant, that there is tower and ground control to. But there is no clearance frequency active. Then should i request IFR clearance on ground frequency?

Oh, got you. On VATSIM we operate on a topdown principle. This means that when a controller is not online, the next one takes over their responsibilities. The topdown order is DEL->GND->TWR->APP->CTR. So if DEL is not online, you go to GND. If GND is not online, you go to TWR etc.

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2 minutes ago, Nick Marinov said:

Oh, got you. On VATSIM we operate on a topdown principle. This means that when a controller is not online, the next one takes over their responsibilities. The topdown order is DEL->GND->TWR->APP->CTR. So if DEL is not online, you go to GND. If GND is not online, you go to TWR etc.

Oh, yeah. Sorry i meant Delivery, not clearence.. 😄  And thank you for helping me!

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