Sarah, this situation arises at a lot of smaller airfields with restricted opening hours, the ATC (& fire cover?) closes and the aircraft may land under an insurance indemnity. What this means is that the airport is not responsible for anything that happens if the pilot elects to land without ATC or fire cover. The situation you describe is slightly different in that a charge was mentioned over the air, I've never had to do that but I do recall cartoons around the time of NATS privatisation about controllers taking credit card details for a straight-in approach..... Mmmmm.
On the scanner thing, some bods get a bit upset and over the top about it, citing the law etc. Who cares? I don't in fact the idea of someone actually
listening to my RT sounds good
