I have been out in the middle of no where several times on IFR flight plans and
been told to "traffic at your XX O'clock, not talking to him, turn xxx degrees."

Also been given vectors way the hell away from my flight path and was even asked
if I could climb to 14,000 ft to avoid VFR traffic that was passing through a
pass.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Jeff" wrote in message
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you have never been vectored around VFR traffic before?
Happens to me everytime I file IFR.


That's fine, as long as it's in airspace in which ATC has the responsibility
to separate VFR aircraft from IFR aircraft and thus the authority to
initiate vectors for separation. But we're not talking about such airspace.
Of course, an aircraft can always request such vectors.