"Tony" wrote in message
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Don't you think "resume own navigation" meant you should do exactly
what you did? If you wanted to go thru their air space, you should have
made that explicit clearance request.


"Resume own navigation" is used by ATC to advise a pilot to resume his own
navigational responsibility. It is issued after completion of a radar
vector or when radar contact is lost while the aircraft is being radar
vectored. It doesn't make any sense in a situation where the pilot has not
been vectored.



The controller obviously thought you were looking for traffic
advisories and the like, you didn't, as best I could tell, ask for more
than that.


He doesn't have to ask for more than that. A radar controller is required
to coordinate with the control tower for transit authorization when he is
providing radar traffic advisory service to an aircraft that will enter
Class D airspace.