Nein! In Deutschland, Air Traffik Kontrol kommand, and zee pilot obey!!!
When I went to ground school for my isntrument rating, the class joke was that whenever we were asked a question about what to do in a certain situation but we didn’t know the answer, everyone would shout “7700”!, the transponder code for emergency, because when a pilot declares an emergency, he can break whatever rules he feels necessary.
I met a German chick there who had interviewed for Lufthansa but was rejected. I never flew with her, but she had more hours in gliders alone by age 19 than most of the twenty-something instructors had in total. She told me Lufthansa prefers to hire pilots with no expereince whatsoever, because it is easier to train them their own way.
Concur. However, with the 7700 Squawk comes mounds of paperwork. The radome on our Prowler imploded and we squawked emergency to land back at Bangor NAS. We had lots of paper to fill out...