Originally Posted by
Squawk_5543
You got that right bub...the last 2 or 3 times I filed IFR and got ready to depart the tower told me they had no flight plan on me. Talk about a pain in the A$$. It's not even worth the trouble. And they want us to pay user fees for this crap?
I had the same situation. Filed and tower told no flight plan. Called FSS on frequency and refiled still nothing. Did it 4 times and it never went through. Had to get a freakin local IFR to go all the way to Detroit Metro IFR. At least tower helped me out.