"Doncaster are in the process of applying for Class D protection and this will inevitably be approved"
I do hope this is not correct. As I understand it from many other threads on this kind of subject it most certainly IS NOT a forgone conclusion. Others have tried and failed to get Calss D (Humberside? comes to mind).
Yes ATC at Finningly are very very good and are to be congratulated BUT (and I mean no disrespect to these people) will they be as good when they do not have to be. One only needs to look at the complaints on these threads to see what happens at other CAS operations.