I say again - so forgive this old story.... wishing to transit Birmingham in my Supercub, properly equipped with all bells and whistles and my Instrument Rating, I asked the controller very nicely for permission.
"Negative" he said. and said it again three or four more times. I could hear no other traffic on the Brummie frequency. But gave up and spiraled down through the clag to Husbands Bosworth to wait out the weather.
And a BA pilot put in his two pence...."You're not in America now, you know!"
I wonder if any other readers have found it difficult to obtain clearances in the UK....