Funny you mention MKE... that's one of the Charlies that *always* does it
to me. I generally fly into Capitol (02C) just to the northeast of Waukesha coming
from Chicago. Again, I'm generally flying 1000' under their Charlie, about 2-3
miles from the inner SFC veil. *IF* I talk to them, they try to vector me to the
west to get outside the lateral boundaries. If they tried to run me over the lake,
it would be a definite "unable."

We fly in that area a lot. Coming from the Southwest, MKE will usually
not take a hand-off from Rockford Approach, which is always
aggravating.

If they DO take the hand-off (or if you're able to catch them on your
own, they usually won't vector you around if you stay to the south of
their airspace. If you head to the north (to Timmerman or Waukesha, for
example), they will vector you around as needed, but not excessively,
IMHO.

If you fly past them along the lake shore, however, they WILL try to
send you way out over the lake. I always tell them "unable", and with
one exception they have always let me stay in tight to shore. The one
exception resulted in being vectored all the way around Class C to the
west, which really sucked.
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