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| Overheard in IFR Magazine‘s “On the Air” |
I was departing Terre Haute, Indiana. The ATIS said clear below 12,000, but I could see a scattered layer of clouds to the south with tops around 4,500 feet. After tower switched me to departure, there was this exchange:
Cessna 123 (me):
“Approach, Cessna 123. Request VFR-on-top 5,500.”
Controller (sarcastically):
“Cessna 123, it’s called ‘clear.'”
Cessna 123 (me):
“Then I’d like to report strange puffy white things with tops around 4,500, 12 o’clock, 10 miles.”
The controller must not have understood that VFR-on-Top does not require clouds.
John Rudolph
Evansville, Indiana
