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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.