Sounds like a case of read the pilot order book. I had a very simmilar experience at a certain flying club down south! What made it worse was i had a rather attractive lady in tow and when we arrived at the airfield it was a lovely calm sunset
She looked lovely in the photo i took of her next to the plane with her hair gently rustling in the breeze
However, the CFI had decreed the forecast not suitable for PPL hire(even with 500hrs on me logg book
)Hence no keys were left where they were supposed to be, and no phone call, even though they had mobile, office and home on the books
So when i pointed out that if i had flown to L2K for example, the decision on the return trip to go/not go would have been mine and why didnt the same apply in this case? Read the pilot order book was the reply, and sure enough thats what it says!
Mine is not to reason why, mine is but to pay and (not) fly!
Syndicate or outright ownership is one solution!
Suffice to say i cancelled my mebership and now fly from a much more friendly place
With my own access code for the hangar and keys etc!!
Just out of interest, it wasn't an airfield to the N.N.W of London sitting just to the north of a Lake was it?