Originally Posted by IO540
If you can't understand the controller then you need ...
... not to be talking to an American airbase controller somewhere in East Anglia ...
... the conventional response is, after failing to parse the reply to "please say again" several times, to say "changing to ...", or simply to
tell them the route you're taking through their MATZ (no problem, they can see you on the radar anyway, and you have done your best to communicate).