Did you contact the APP controller and did they not allow you to depart VFR? If true, this should not happen.
It just that they didn’t have any time to respond to “lower priority traffic” (VFR at a smaller airport). I’m not blaming them, because as far as I understand, this is the rule, that APPROACH and CENTER are responsible for airports which are below them if there is no dedicated ATC for that airport.
Is this not the rule? If there is an airport under CENTER or APPROACH airspace, then they are the only ones who can give out permissions if there is no dedicated airport ATC (for example TWR)? If this is not the rule, how do you handle this situation, you just take off, without even contacting them (because they’re busy, they’ll not even respond to an initial call)?
depart such an airport offline and connect to the network only when you are outside controlled airspace
I thought you cannot connect while flying. Am I mistaken?
For reference: Finding ATC .
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