I finally folded and watched someone stream 3.15. First stream other than from the con for years. It was late at night, but I was stone cold sober. I joined part way through the stream as the streamer hailed the ATC (STC perhaps). Landing pad was allocated, but there was nothing visible on the HUD. No obvious marker on the station either despite flying around it several times. The streamer rehailed and just got told they had already hailed. The streamer made light of it and decided to do something else. I switched off. This is basic stuff after all this time, but what really shocked me was the attitude of basically a shoulder shrug and lets do something else, as if this sort of glitch was the norm. There also seemed no way to cancel the request and rehail. So, gave every appearance of flawed design and buggy implementation. Given that the pad request handshake is a very basic aspect of a space flight game it was sobering. Glad I am still zero invested.