VFR into controlled field.. Who closes flight plan?

[exncsurfer]

I didn't answer a question in my response to mscard88, he did not ask a question:



Let me rephrase my response to that message:

Strips for VFR flights do come out of the printer, and they did in '88 too, but these are not VFR flight plans filed with FSS.

When filing a flight plan if "VFR" is selected as the type of flight plan the data stays with FSS.

If "IFR" is selected the data goes to ATC. If "VFR" is entered as the altitude there'll be strips for VFR flights coming out of the printer.

OK thanks, so this doesn't explain how the tower seemed to already know about my vfr(only) flight plan before I brought it up on the radio. I don't know, but I was surprised and impressed.