# IFR return from the Bay Area (Full ATC) - You saw Weird Al?!

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**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.cirruspilots.org/t/ifr-return-from-the-bay-area-full-atc-you-saw-weird-al/217003 "2020-06-04T21:36:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![waynemcc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/copa/user_avatar/forum.cirruspilots.org/waynemcc/32/85075_2.png) [@waynemcc](https://forum.cirruspilots.org/u/waynemcc)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.cirruspilots.org/t/ifr-return-from-the-bay-area-full-atc-you-saw-weird-al/217003/1 "2020-06-04T21:36:32Z")

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[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/copa/original/3X/4/e/4e8e2f9dd78f8827b3f3d39591ec2107eca8f40f.jpeg "IFR return from the Bay Area (Full ATC) - You saw Weird Al?!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWt5zrT0fKM)

An IFR return home, with an interesting departure from San Carlos, some enjoyable music, comedy courtesy of Weird Al (yes!!), and the ILS through a spotty marine layer. Might well have been easier to depart VFR (although those departure instructions begin much the same way), thread through restricteds on my own, and then request a pop-up clearance into Santa Barbara. In the airspaces you fly, is getting a pop-up approach clearance a 100% certainty?  
Thanks for your insight and enjoy the flight!  
Wayne, GeezerGeek Pilot