@ Pierre!
Not all that long ago, my boss was flying from Blackpool to somewhere south of Blackpool in a Cessna Citation. I don't know the details of the flight, but I was on a frequency as he was leaving Blackpool. He cancelled his IFR flight plan because it was a nice sunny day, and then asked the controller if he could arange a handover to Machester Approach after departure for a zone crossing. Controller says to standby, he'll call Mancehster and ask them. A moment, the controller comes back and tells him that Manchester have said they can't do the handover for a VFR flight. What's more, they'll expect him to route down the low-level route. They may be able to provide FIS if he free-calls them.
I never got a chance to find out what actually happened, but I bet my boss enjoyed the flight down the LLR, if that's what he ended up doing!
FFF
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