Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
I've done it at our non towered out stations in the ATL systems many a times. It's legal both per the FAR's and company op specs and much faster than waiting around on the phone, GCO, or through the crappy ground freqs for approach and center. Same thing up north in CLE heck most of the time that was the fastest and easiest way to make CRP up there.
I was based in BFD for a year. Never once left the ground before we had clearance. EVER. Even when it's clear and 50. Had to make a couple of attempts to contact CLE center on the ground in BFD in the morning because they forgot to turn on the transceiver, even had to wait for a friendly relay once or twice. Time on the ground has no effect on CRP, that's triggered by GS over 30 knots on takeoff and under 30 on landing. Unless they changed the rules since I left BFD last summer. Same story with canceling IFR when landing, not until we're clearing the runway. You never know if you may have to go around due to windshear, runway incursion, PC lighting timing out after you click it up, whatever. Did quite a few procedure-turn ILS to BFD and JHW while up there for CRP, quicker than waiting on vectors. Same with RNAV approaches, wind permitting. Really sucked when 941 was up there, that one was a FL plane without the good DPUs, so green needle approaches only.