On Aug 4, 10:03*am, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:
For those that fly IFR to AirVenture, how did the service this year compare
to prior years?

I thought it was great. Flew up Sunday, flew back Wednesday
afternoon. I was a little worried about having to file to DLL, as
that was further west than I needed to go, but I got a turn south just
east of Madison, which was pretty close to the direct path.

That being said, I didn't have many problems in previous years. One
thing I noticed was there seemed to be a lot of pilots requesting VFR
advisories and being turned down. More than I had heard on previous
years (from my recollection). I know the NOTAM said no VFR advisories
within 150 miles or whatever, but was there some sort of rule
forbidding a controller from accepting VFR advisories, even on a
workload permitting basis? I got the impression (hard to tell from
just voice inflection) that several controllers wanted to issue radar
advisories, but were being restricted from.

Just my observations, which are not necessarily anything close to the
truth.

Brian
N9093K