Tower to Tower IFR Clearance - satellite airports
I've been reading about tower enroute control ("TEC") lately, and it sounds awesome, but I've never used it. It makes perfect sense, though. If I'm flying a short flight at low altitude that doesn't involve Center, why make a big production--let the towers and local controllers fit me in.
My questions are, whether this is only available between specific large airports (published routes)? Or can I request this for smaller airports?
For example, there are two towered airports, one is below Class B the other is about 30 miles away (and I'd fly at 3000ft), pretty much on the Mode C ring of the Class B. This seems like the perfect scenario for tower-to-tower concept, but these airport's aren't in the pre-published TEC routes.
In this situation, can I call ground/clnc del and ask for Tower to tower IFR clearnance to the other airport, or would that be bad form?
I've been reading about tower enroute control ("TEC") lately, and it sounds awesome, but I've never used it. It makes perfect sense, though. If I'm flying a short flight at low altitude that doesn't involve Center, why make a big production--let the towers and local controllers fit me in.
My questions are, whether this is only available between specific large airports (published routes)? Or can I request this for smaller airports?
For example, there are two towered airports, one is below Class B the other is about 30 miles away (and I'd fly at 3000ft), pretty much on the Mode C ring of the Class B. This seems like the perfect scenario for tower-to-tower concept, but these airport's aren't in the pre-published TEC routes.
In this situation, can I call ground/clnc del and ask for Tower to tower IFR clearnance to the other airport, or would that be bad form?
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