AN ATX FREIGHTER PLT FLYING A C402 OPERATES INTO AN ARPT WHERE THE WX WAS RPTED TO BE IMC; BUT THE PLT CANCELED HIS IFR CLRNC WHEN HE SAW THE ARPT. MINUTES LATER; HE DEPARTED AND PICKED UP HIS CLRNC FROM THE SURPRISED CTLR.

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I FLEW INTO ORL (WHICH WAS UNCTLED AT XA30). APCH SAID CEILINGS WERE 500 FT BROKEN. SO I SHOT THE BACK COURSE RWY 25. FROM THE E OF THE ARPT; THERE WERE NO CEILINGS AT ALL. I CANCELED MY IFR AT 1000 FT AND LANDED VFR. AFTER LEAVING MY FREIGHT; I TAXIED FOR DEP; ONLY 2 MINS FROM WHEN I SHOT THE VFR APCH. I TRIED TO CONTACT ORL APCH ON 124.03 FOR IFR TKOF CLRNC; BUT NO ONE WOULD ANSWER. SINCE IT WAS VFR; I DEPARTED TO THE W AND CONTACTED APCH AT 400 FT ON CLBOUT. AT 1000 FT; THE CTLR ANSWERED 'I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU DID THAT.' HE THEN ASKED WHAT ALT I WAS. I ANSWERED 1300 FT. AFTER A MIN HE GAVE ME CLRNC TO TPA AND SAID I SHOULD NOT MAKE A HABIT OF WHAT I DID; AND THAT (THAT ARPT) WAS IFR. I TOLD HIM I HAD GOT OUT THROUGH A HOLE. I SHOULD HAVE TOLD HIM MORE; THAT IT WAS VFR WHERE I HAD TAKEN OFF. INSTEAD OF GIVING A PIREP; WHICH MIGHT HAVE EXPLAINED AND EVEN HELPED OTHER PLTS; I WAS SHOCKED BY THE CTLR'S TONE ENOUGH THAT I JUST WANTED TO KEEP SHUT AND NOT ARGUE AND GET TO MY DEST. AFTER I HAD ARRIVED AT MY DEST I WISHED I WOULD HAVE VOICED MY FLT CONDITIONS. AFTER ALL; I WAS IN THEM AND THAT CTLR WASN'T. I ALSO THINK THE CTLR SHOULD HAVE HANDLED HIMSELF BETTER. HE WAS PROBABLY HAVING A BAD MORNING. THIS SAME CTLR FLEW ME RIGHT THROUGH THE LOC OF THE BACK COURSE.