I did the circuit element of my Night rating at Luton. The only other traffic was a Britannia 767. A little while later, I took myself on a tour round the South-East. One of my chosen airfields was Luton - no problem getting prior permission for a Rallye. Walked across the apron and into the (deserted) terminal building to pay the small landing fee. A while later again, I did my IMC rating and did most of the approaches and the test at Luton. We used to get a great service from their RADAR unit until it moved to NATS. Oh, and the first half of the Night rating I did at Stansted - we got staff rates for landing and parking fees as I worked at Heathrow at the time. Gosh, is seems like only yesterday.
TOO