Chuck Dillon
Filing Flight Plan
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- Jul 24, 2008
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grnbrt1956
Hello all:
Not sure if this fits in here but here I go anyway. I filed a VFR flight plan via DUAT from my home base of Bedford, MA (KBED) to Northhampton, MA. and return. Off I go get airborne and open my flight plan with Bridgeport, CT FSS. The FSS specialist has me on a round robin Bedford and back to Bedford, okay all wells.
Upon my return to KBED, there is a phone call from the pilot that flew the A/C yesterday. ( Oh yeah I forgot to mention the A/C belongs to a military aero club and policy has it to file a flight plan no matter how long the flight is) anyway he had just got a call from FSS asking where he was, because he was overdue and not closed out his flight plan.
Well the other guy flew a round robin the pervious night and did close it out, he has the cell phone date and time stamp to prove it. When I called to close my flight plan the FSS guy said there was no record of my flight plan being filed!
Has this happened to anyone else? I am worried that my flight plan is gonna pop up that I am missing and get some sort of saction.
Thanks
chuck
Not sure if this fits in here but here I go anyway. I filed a VFR flight plan via DUAT from my home base of Bedford, MA (KBED) to Northhampton, MA. and return. Off I go get airborne and open my flight plan with Bridgeport, CT FSS. The FSS specialist has me on a round robin Bedford and back to Bedford, okay all wells.
Upon my return to KBED, there is a phone call from the pilot that flew the A/C yesterday. ( Oh yeah I forgot to mention the A/C belongs to a military aero club and policy has it to file a flight plan no matter how long the flight is) anyway he had just got a call from FSS asking where he was, because he was overdue and not closed out his flight plan.
Well the other guy flew a round robin the pervious night and did close it out, he has the cell phone date and time stamp to prove it. When I called to close my flight plan the FSS guy said there was no record of my flight plan being filed!
Has this happened to anyone else? I am worried that my flight plan is gonna pop up that I am missing and get some sort of saction.
Thanks
chuck