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Anonymous
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First 90% of the flight totally uneventful ATC wise. Picked up my clearance in the air, off I went on a mostly VMC above the clouds flight.
Then came time for decent. Talked with approach about which runway and gave my RNAV approach request and which waypoint I wanted to start with.
ATC came back with "cleared XXX (IAF) maintain 4000 until established on a published portion of the approach. Report inbound XXX (the next way point-IF/IAF).
AND I THINK she said in there cleared bla bla appraoch.....BUT I CANNOT rememeber.
I repeated all of that back and started to set up for the approach.
So I am flying the approach and a new controller starts. must be shift change
ATC: NXXXX do you have the weather
ME: Yes I have the weather and I will be turning inbound XXX now.
ATC: uhh i just sat down were you cleared for the approach?
me: ummm yes I was cleared and told to report inbound XXX
Shortly after I was VFR so I cancelled with her in the air.
SO my question is this. In the initial ATC exchange if I did not heard the magic words cleared for the approach but I got all of those other instructions am I good.
If not.... am I going to pilot jail? She didn't say anything after and I cancels IFR once I was out of the soup.
Then came time for decent. Talked with approach about which runway and gave my RNAV approach request and which waypoint I wanted to start with.
ATC came back with "cleared XXX (IAF) maintain 4000 until established on a published portion of the approach. Report inbound XXX (the next way point-IF/IAF).
AND I THINK she said in there cleared bla bla appraoch.....BUT I CANNOT rememeber.
I repeated all of that back and started to set up for the approach.
So I am flying the approach and a new controller starts. must be shift change
ATC: NXXXX do you have the weather
ME: Yes I have the weather and I will be turning inbound XXX now.
ATC: uhh i just sat down were you cleared for the approach?
me: ummm yes I was cleared and told to report inbound XXX
Shortly after I was VFR so I cancelled with her in the air.
SO my question is this. In the initial ATC exchange if I did not heard the magic words cleared for the approach but I got all of those other instructions am I good.
If not.... am I going to pilot jail? She didn't say anything after and I cancels IFR once I was out of the soup.