Genuinely glad to hear of someone's good experiences with that airfield. My own memories relate to an earlier period in DAAT's presence on the airfield after the precipitate departure from the original location at Belle Vue. EGHU is the only place where I had to do entire HEMS shifts wearing welly boots owing to water between 6 and 9 inches deep between the then-Portacabin base and the refuel point. Many of my grumbles with the Air Ambo op at the time should be directed at the then-chief exec of the Trust, who was replaced (along with at least one of the trustees) while I was there - they tried running the base on a shoe-string and it showed. Bond usually provided everything required to run a base, but DAAT insisted on saving money by setting-up the operation themselves. A 2nd-hand desk with, it turned out, only one bolt holding it together, as I found when the whole thing collapsed onto my knees while doing the end-of-shift paperwork; no window coverings (might sound trivial, but both from a security point of view AND when trying to work with nothing to stop the low winter sun (yes, we sometimes saw that rare beast) directly in your face when sat at that desk) - the list went on, and on. Bond were no help to their own staff, always taking the side of the customer, so the 2 excellent full-time base pilots left. Fortunately the appointment of new management at the AAT, and the energetic co-operation between the new trustee(s) and the new chief pilot, led to the construction of arguably the best HEMS base I ever had the pleasure to operate out of.
On the negative side regarding the airfield back then, there was the sad demise of the microlight school and the way that the terminally-ill CI appeared to be treated. More worryingly, there was the discovery that the airfield JetA1 supply was contaminated (as proven by several tests carried out by base and Staverton staff), leading to the aircraft used by DAA having to go for deep servicing. As nothing appeared to be done by the airfield to address the issue with any urgency, the DAA aircraft had to come to an arrangement with the MoD, in the form of the SARboys and girls at Chiv, over refuelling. Fortunately, Ollie the boss there was fantastic and the SAR folk could not have been more helpful if they'd tried - they kept the Air Ambo in business. I do hope the jet fuel situation has been resolved, as that fungus cost Bond a lot of money to sort out.