: One is that if you're VFR in Class E airspace, they really don't have
: any authority to vector you (I'm sure somebody will come up with some
: exception). Sometimes controllers do try to do so anyway, but if you
: really don't want to comply, you can just say "cancel flight
: following, request frequency change" and go on your fat, dumb, and
: happy way.

That's true, but it amounts to the same thing as not calling them for
advisories in the first place. Often, you may have deviated a fair bit before you
cancel.... perhaps *into* controlled airspace and then you'd be stuck.

: The other is that if you're doing something like skirting the top of a
: Class B by 500 feet and the controller suggests a heading or route to
: you, it might just be in both of your best interests to go along with
: it. You scratch his back and he'll scratch yours. There's a lot of
: heavy metal climbing out the top of a Class B. I don't want to be the
: hood ornament on a 747, nor do I want to discover what the wake
: turbulence of one feels like.

That would be fine, if it were a heading or route for actual traffic. More
often than not, it's a "friend-vector" that takes you completely to the side of the
airspace. I don't even have a moving-map GPS and I can watch the "circle-of-vectors"
form.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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