In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

There is no requirement to use it, but (especially in busy airspace) we
use flight following religiously.

But isn't busy airspace more likely to turn you down?

Yes. Most of the time they don't, though.

I beg to differ. I fly in the LA basin (my home base is VNY) all the
time and not once in over ten years of flying have I ever been denied
flight following here.

The only time I have been denied flight following was in the middle of
nowhere, returning to LA from Santa Fe. There were thunderstorms and
IFR flights were diverting all over the place.

rg