slavinger
Pre-Flight
As a follow-up to my earlier "VFR over ORD class B" question, I wanted to give a shout-out to the awesome Chicago approach controllers, based on my own recent experiences. I know my previous thread generated a lot of back & forth about who gets FF and when, here's my experience. I've had several flights so far out of UGN SE-bound VFR, over ORD class B and along the lakeshore VFR corridor. In all cases, I was able to get FF no problem on 120.55. Chicago guys even go out of their way to arrange transition of GYY's airspace. They're a pleasure to deal with! Granted I'm flying through on Sun afternoons (probably not rush hour), I'm starting on the north end, and not as a hand-off from another facility (which is key, judging by the previous thread). I have yet to try my luck going northbound VFR towards UGN, but so far my experience has been very positive!