When to call clearance delivery or just ground

[Peter Grey]

As a general real life rule, follow the ATIS. It will generally tell you who to contact .

Unfortunately, here at PilotEdge we don't control your ATIS, so we teach our controllers the following rules (which roughly follow what you find in the real world, but have some variance in some cases):

If you are flying IFR always call clearance delivery if it exists.
For VFR flights you never need to call clearance delivery at a Class D airport,.
You generally should at Class C airports (but its not 100%, real world it's around 50%. most of our controllers will want you to call delivery as that is more common then not in socal)
You should always call delivery at a Class B airport.

[currentadventure]

Thanks for the clarification Peter. Now we all know PE's position and it all makes sense.

PE controllers....I'll try not to screw it up anymore

[stevekirks]

An oldie but a goodie:

http://flighttraining.aopa.org/magazine ... tions.html