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08-14-2015, 08:53 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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There is nothing wrong with calling ATC and telling them you are there and want flight following across the top. The best of all worlds you get traffic alerts and you can make course changes at will.
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08-15-2015, 06:18 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Novi, MI & Venice, FL
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Originally Posted by RFSchaller
There is nothing wrong with calling ATC and telling them you are there and want flight following across the top. The best of all worlds you get traffic alerts and you can make course changes at will.
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Maybe. I have been VFR with flight following around or over the lettered air spaces and have been given headings and / or altitudes to hold, and have been "corrected" when changing an altitude without coordination with the controller. The controllers may be aware of heavy metal coming into the airspace from a certain direction and want to keep it clear. In any event, I've found it best to coordinate with the controllers for any heading or altitude change, even if they don't say "advise before any heading or altitude change".
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08-15-2015, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Ocala
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RFSchaller
There is nothing wrong with calling ATC and telling them you are there and want flight following across the top. The best of all worlds you get traffic alerts and you can make course changes at will.
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this is a great answer! Its to your best interest to have more eyes on you to keep you out of harms way even though your legal to fly above 7k airspace.
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08-15-2015, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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In general you should always tell the controller when you change routing or altitude unless he/she says "resume own navigation" or "altitude at pilot's discretion" or gives you a an altitude limit such as "maintain VFR below 4000".
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08-15-2015, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RFSchaller
There is nothing wrong with calling ATC and telling them you are there and want flight following across the top. The best of all worlds you get traffic alerts and you can make course changes at will.
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We had our monthly EAA 1114 Breakfast meeting this morning where I discussed the issue with a former ATC, he told me he would not do it because of the volume of traffic flying across the top in this area. In these conditions Rich's advice (confirmed by Joe) makes lots of sense. With Flight Following I still will face the understanding issue but in a more limited context.
By the way I agree that my accent is not a big problem, my main issue is understanding the controllers who speak very fast over sometimes noisy radio signals. I would hate to have to ask them to repeat in a high traffic area where the amount of time they can spend with each plane is limited.
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08-15-2015, 07:23 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Texas, Fort Worth
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Why Not just fly around instead of over the Class B airspace? 
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08-15-2015, 08:58 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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Try it, you'll like it.
Jean, try flight following a few times on low traffic/low stress flights. I bet you'll like it, and your radio anxiety will fade away. You can cancel flight following at any time if it becomes too difficult. Don't be surprised if they cancel on you because you're too low for radar coverage. John
Last edited by jpowell13 : 08-15-2015 at 09:03 PM.
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08-15-2015, 10:25 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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I think flight following is great in complex airspace like the LA basin. Otherwise I prefer my IPod plugged into my Bose while using my ADS-B In on WingX.
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08-16-2015, 05:56 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RFSchaller
I think flight following is great in complex airspace like the LA basin. Otherwise I prefer my IPod plugged into my Bose while using my ADS-B In on WingX.
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Actually TIS on Skyview is quite helpful in areas close to Class Bs and Cs. The main issue with TIS is that, beside not working when you are too low (in my case it drops when I enter the pattern area at 1,400ft), it also drops when I am still in sight of a neighboring class C (KGSO) but North-West of the airport. I have KRDU also a class C close to my home airport with a consistent coverage all around but I cannot figure the TIS blind spot North-West of KGSO.
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08-16-2015, 11:16 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Yes, ADS is not perfect, but around PHX I get great coverage.
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