Has this happened to anyone? Does anyone have an answer as to why this happened. A student pilot challenged me with this statement / question. He was on a VFR cross country. He filed a VFR Flight plan and was also using flight following. He said that the cross country was taking longer than what he planned. Instead of a 2 hr 20min flight it took him 2 hr 45min. He said that when he arrived at his destination he contacted flight service to close his flight plan and flight service said they had already closed his flight plan for him because he went past his time.
He asked me what is the purpose of a VFR flight plan when flight Service will just close it anyways. I think flight service called the airport and found out he landed safely and therefore closed it.
any comments?
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