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

: I have had good luck with Flight Following but am pretty touchy on
: being given vectors just to ease the controllers duties. I most always
: cancel flight following, dial in 1200 and remind them there has NEVER
: been a controller killed in a midair, it is always the pilots in
: command. After all,, they work for us, not the other way around.
:

: "Vectors just to ease the controllers duties"? What do you mean by that?
: If you're in an area where ATC must provide separation vectoring is a valid
: tool to achieve it. If you're not in an area where ATC must provide
: separation then there's no reason for ATC to vector you.

... and yet they routinely do it if you happen to talk to them.


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