European ATC Clearances
Have recently flown domestically in Europe, and also a leg from the UK to Iceland and return. Seems our initial clearance is always to "destination" via some domestic routing, eg ABC vor UG 99 to DEF vor. However in the USA we are always given "as filed" or "flight plan route" after the initial routing. In Europe this phrase never seems to be included.
So...in the event of no further clearance from atc, are we expected to continue flight plan route?
The UK to Iceland portion actually enters oceanic airspace, and this we did without a clearance from Scottish (?) if I remember correctly, the jepp chart indicates that this is appropriate. Yet the absence of "as filed" still leaves me apprehensive. Should I be quering the controllers each and every time?