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It will even track GA acft if you have flight following.
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How does that work?
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When you are on flight following (I know you know this already..) ATC will give you a transponder code. the computer/radar that ATC is tracking doesn't know or care if you are IFR, it just see the acft track and assigned code.. The controllers know you are VFR, that is all.
Funny part is, I fly our plane from N40 to GFL a few times a month. Unless I am flying low up the hudson river, (very cool to fly 60 miles in ground effect...) I will get Flt following. I have no interest in getting run though by some 777 or worse, a skylane with the cheeseburger pilots on board. If I fly at 5500ft, my route takes me through the arrivials from EWR,(usually that is the alt I am passing at that point as I tend to fly quite high 10,000+ with field elevations in the 100ft.) So I feel so much better knowing that ATC sees me. But where it is a riot, is when they drop me due to being too busy. My wife says, she will check on my flight, then Poof I am gone.... not in the system still 40 miles from home. I'll check in and she says. So they dropped you over Sparta again huh?