Regs regarding "VFR flight following?" (also: "need to vent")

: 12500 if we wanted. Unable, so we were vectored 20 miles out of our way.
: No I know the "correct" way to hand this would be to terminate radar
: services.
:

: The top of Charlotte approach control airspace is 10,500 MSL? That's odd,
: these things tend to be at IFR altitudes. In that situation 11,000 over
: Charlotte approach airspace would be virtually unusable.

The top was 10,000. We were at 10,500 (almost due north, so VOR-VOR was sometimes even, sometimes odd...at
that point it was slightly west). At even 10,001 feet, we wouldn't have had to call them at all, but since we did we
got a 20 mile detour as a result.

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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The top was 10,000. We were at 10,500 (almost due north, so VOR-VOR was sometimes even, sometimes odd...at
that point it was slightly west). At even 10,001 feet, we wouldn't have had to call them at all, but since we did we
got a 20 mile detour as a result.

That's just absurd. You must've found a controller that was ****ed
about not being allowed to wear flip-flops to work...

ducking!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

That's just absurd. You must've found a controller that was ****ed
about not being allowed to wear flip-flops to work...

hey - the guy was professionally dressed, so he must have been
acting professionally, right?

also ducking

--
Bob Noel
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lawyers will hate

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The top was 10,000. We were at 10,500 (almost due north, so VOR-VOR was
sometimes even, sometimes odd...at
that point it was slightly west). At even 10,001 feet, we wouldn't have
had to call them at all, but since we did we
got a 20 mile detour as a result.


I would have reminded them that I was operating VFR in Class E airspace and
thus they had no responsibility for separation and no authority to initiate
vectors or assign an altitude.