Not Long Now, I am genuinely impressed and your are to be congratulated. My experience of VFR in the UK over the last 28 years suggests you are a rarity and whilst I have always had a very good service from UK controllers when in CAS it has become increasingly difficult to gain access. As I said in a prior post I now routinely avoid the vast majority of CAS for that reason. With traffic volumes at an all time low for many years one would have expected more access to CAS and not less.