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[Graueradler]

I landed today after about a 45 minute direct origin to destination flight today and closed my flight plan while still taxiing. When I called my wife after getting out of the plane, she told me that FSS had called the house 20 minutes ago looking for me, that I was overdue. I called FSS back to clarify what mistake I might have made and they were very apologetic. It seems that they had written down the take off time wrong! I call on the cell phone and open the flight plan immediately before take off - the FSS contact said something like "open as of now". My wife had 20 minutes of needless worry. At least, the system worked - they were looking for me. In the future, I will make sure that I hear a spoken time from FSS for opening the flight plan.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

They did the same to my wife in.... about '93. She was planning my funeral (and probably selling all my stuff in her mind) and not to mention a feeling a little sick as she tried out the descriptive 'widow' with my last name.

 

[poadeleted20]

Opening a flight plan before takeoff can cause this because while FSS will put down a past time as your takeoff (i.e., calling after getting airborne) they do not open flight plans with a future time. If you're going to do this, allow extra time in your ETE to allow for any delays from calling to wheels up.