Howdabout,
Bloggs, do you have a similar recollection? I will willingly retract, but I think my memory is not that addled in regard to purported US practices during the NAS nightmare.
Certainly do. The AsA delegation that went to the US to study the US NAS was told by the head FAA honcho that IFR in G are given clearances. RBA put it in his visit report. So much for Dick's Class G dirt road airspace...