Airborne IFR clearance question
Asked by: vector victor 1978 views FAA Regulations, Instrument Rating, Weather
My question is: where is it published (if it is) the minimum altitude at which one can pick up an airborne IFR clearance for a particular Uncontrolled airport. I recently had this issue on a VFR departure with relatively low ceilings, where the controller wouldn’t give me the clearance until I was higher and where I couldn’t climb high enough VFR to get the clearance, even though I was in Radar contact and communicating with ATC. It would be nice to know what that minimum is altitude beforehand(like it should be published on the ODP, Chart supplement, or somewhere similar) The only Thing I could find was the MVA (Minimum Vector Altitude) which i believe is For controllers not pilots.
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