The greed of the civil serpents and their loathsome 'Wider Marketing Initiative' pervades everywhere these days.
Some years ago, some administrivial idiot civil serpent said that a station was expected to pay for a VC10 to appear on static display for their families' day.
The station in question? Brize Norton. Fortunately even Kelvin Rucksack told him to ram it!
We also had to fight off the civil serpents' attempts to make a Service flying club's aircraft pay the full MoD landing fees - for landing at a different Service aerodrome....... How long before stations are obliged to have 'pay and display' car parks, I wonder?
But for miserable bean-counting civil serpents to extract payment for charitable events in support of Service welfare is inexcusable.