"Doug" wrote:
Uh, If you are on an IFR flight plan, you don't need to hear "cleared
for Class B". At least that is always the way it has worked for me.

The applicable reg is 91.131(a)(1): "No person may operate an aircraft
within a Class B airspace area except [...] The operator must receive an
ATC clearance from the ATC facility having jurisdiction for that area
before operating an aircraft in that area"

If you are IFR, you have "a clearance". You don't have to specifically be
cleared into the class bravo, you just have to have "a clearance".