"Doug" wrote in message
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What did your CFI tell you to do? Decline ATC's instruction? If you do
that, the ATC guy is going to be confused and probably ask you what it
is you want to do. In which case you can tell him that you want to go
down to 1800' and intercept there. Ok, descend to 1800', intercept and
cleared.


That may not be possible. If the MVA is 2000 then 2000 is as low as ATC can
go.