Question about "clear to land" instruction
Am I correct in saying that in the UK you will only receive the "clear to land" instruction if you are number 1. Whereas in the U.S. I believe you could receive something along the lines of " clear to Land number 2 behind the piper" . I am asking as I was recently approaching a towered field on a 4 mile final with at least 4 others in the circuit, I momentarily lost situational awareness of some of the traffic who were now on late downwind I then received a clear to land instruction, I enquired if that would be as number 2 behind the aircraft I assumed was now on base but was advised by tower that if I was not number 1 I would not have been given a cleared to land.