Re: Treatment of IFR flight plans (UK, outside Class A)
This confirms what I had suspected.
I have heard from people (with an IR although of course ATC is not in the business of questioning pilot ratings) who filed an IFR FP, within the UK, with say FL070, and they got pushed about all over the place, OCAS, for the first 50-100 miles. Nobody seemed to know why the aircraft was kept out of CAS (Class A) for so long - could not have been due to traffic.