a years membership is £40, launch fee is £4.50 and soaring fee is £0.10 for 10 minutes
I can understand the membership and launch fees. But what is the (ridiculously low) soaring fee used for? I can't see it used as a deterrent not to stay up there too long, but I also can't see a revenue stream of, let's say, 10 quid over a whole weekend per airframe, being used towards anything like 100-hour/annual checks, depreciation, maintenance, hangarage and so forth.
Just curiosity from a powered pilot. Or you can even call it envy.