"Greg Farris" wrote in message
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I can almost hear the center controller's hair being pulled out!
You may be VFR, responsible for visual separation, but the IFR traffic
near you is not. Suddenly you want ten degrees left! Maybe in wide-open
places with little traffic - try asking something like that to Boston
center.


Oh, but the IFR traffic near him IS just as responsible for visual
separation as he
is. It's the Center controller that has no separation responsibility in
this case.


§ 91.113 Right-of-way rules: Except water operations.

(b) General. When weather conditions permit, regardless of whether an
operation is conducted under instrument flight rules or visual flight rules,
vigilance shall be maintained by each person operating an aircraft so as to
see and avoid other aircraft. When a rule of this section gives another
aircraft the right-of-way, the pilot shall give way to that aircraft and may
not pass over, under, or ahead of it unless well clear.



VFR on top is a wierd one.
One gets the feeling controllers don't understand why pilots request this.
Not sure I do either - unless, once again, you're out west somewhere,
where it might give you some extra freedom.


It keeps you in the IFR system, whether that gives you "extra freedom" or
not is debatable. ATC's not gonna move you for traffic, but you may have to
move for clouds.