Regs regarding "VFR flight following?" (also: "need to vent")

: 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.

I'm usually coming from the south-southeast (Waukegan, Kenosha) and just nicking their airspace. Haven't gone
yet where I talked to them from under their Charlie and *didn't* get vectored to the west.

: 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.

I actually did a "downtown sightseeing" tour for the first time when I was up there about two weeks ago. They
were very accomodating.

: 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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I don't remember the sectional exactly, but I imagine the SFC part of their Charlie goes to the lake, doesn't
it? You're kinda screwed there, but it's good to hear that they usually allow it.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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