Anybody who expcts to be able to use a privately-built heliport without paying a landing fee is dreaming.
It costs enormous amounts of money and time and effort to jump through the regulatory hoops and establish a heliport. To recoup the costs via landing fees is unrealistic, you would need to charge $1000 per landing. But a fee of $50 will help offset the administrative costs of the paperwork to be filled out, the public liability insurance, the meet-and-greet person, the coffee, the cleaner to keep the public areas and toilets clean (often it's the Chief Pilot who ends up doing all this) and so on.
Good on you Belly Tank, for having a go.
