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Old 04-01-2011, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by N9373M View Post
I've had a pop-up IFR request denied, but that was laziness on my part and the controller was certainly within his rights to do so.
That's when you swap to FSS, file, switch back and say you wanna pickup your IFR.

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Old 04-01-2011, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by USMCFLYR View Post
I had a controller in Kuwait tell everyone on frequency once (after many calls and a period of utter silence from the controllers)
"Standby - - the sky is full"

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I honestly don't know how they handle the volume of traffic they do in such a tiny airspace.

When I was at Baghdad Center, they would happily hose us with dozens of handoffs at once.
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