Gig 601XL Builder writes:

You are contradicting yourself Anthony. First you say you don't want to risk
distracting in busy airspace then you turn around that you'd use flight
following with lots of traffic nearby.

It's not a contradiction. At some point my safety (and that of
others) makes flight following necessary. ATC might be busy, but not
with traffic in my area; in that case I don't necessarily need flight
following. Or I might be right in the thick of the heavy traffic that
ATC is handling, in which case flight following might be justified.

ATC is capable of deciding whether or not they are too busy to provide
flight following the pilot need not worry about distracting them with the
request or the service.

I suppose that's true. I hate to impose.

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