"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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The confusion may come from that fact that if you are receiving flight
following (or IFR) from center or some other facility and you fly
through the class C you are ok, it is there responsibility to
coordinate with the class C controllers for you or to hand you off.

But its being their responsibility doesn't mean that it isn't still the
pilot's responsibility too (in the case of VFR flight following). In fact,
the AIM (3-2-1d) says "It is the responsibility of the pilot to insure that
ATC clearance or radio communication requirements are met prior to entry
into Class B, Class C, or Class D airspace. *The pilot retains this
responsibility when receiving ATC radar advisories*." (emphasis added).

So even when I'm receiving flight following, I assume I need to talk to the
tower or approach controller of the facility whose airspace I'm about to
transit, except if the chart notes otherwise (for example, in the case of
several satellites whose Class D airspace is underneath Boston's Class B,
the chart says to contact Boston Approach to transit the Class D above a
certain altitude). In practice, though, I can't recall any time that the
controller giving me radar advisories wasn't already the one I needed to be
in contact with.

--Gary