Yup, have to agree it's pretty straighforward. Finally got my PPL a week ago and did two short flights from Headcorn - one circuits, one local but heading out of R112 through the Headcorn corridor.
I figured you need to keep pushing yourself with this "licence to learn", so for my 3rd flight on my own licence I filed a flight plan last night using Sky Demon. Then cancelled it and filed another one taking account of the fact that it's in Zulu not local time
I filed at about 22:35 (local!) and the Atlas acceptance code email was sent at 22:40, and I got the text to my phone at 00:40.
A pilot friend passenger and I took off at 18:30 as per the plan, and once I contacted the Atlas South ICF with the auth code in the initial request for basic service (plus I added "... and clearance to enter the restricted zone" for my own comfort even though that wasn't as per the guide) I got immediate response as I lifted PTT that my code was correct and I was cleared to enter the zone. About 15 secs later I then got a call with the RTF frequency to transfer to but as I was still climbing in the old C150, I was having trouble hearing the freq but the controller patiently repeated it - on the third time digit by digit - until I got it.
It was just an hour local bimble to Bewl, Maidstone, Ashford and back and I think we heard 4 other aircraft total in contact on our frequency during the entire flight.
As the thread title says, easy - if I can do it on my third PPL flight, I'm sure you can
