"Doug Rinks" wrote in message
om...

Perhaps the other aircraft was VFR? If it was, the controller is under
no obligation to separate you. Their job is to separate IFR from IFR
aircraft, and on a "time available" basis separate IFR from VFR, and
VFR from VFR. To me it sounds like the controller did everything
right, and you did (most) everything wrong.


In Class B airspace the controller must separate IFR from VFR and VFR from
VFR, and "time available" has nothing to do with it.