Another rip off hotel landing fee
About 5 miles from me there is a small hotel/pub called the Izaak Walton Hotel at the end of Dovedale. I often go in there during the summer for a snack lunch as it is a nice place with good food. The pad is a small area of rough sloping grass spotted with sheep dung next to the pub garden. There are no facilities other than the hotel itself.
It has always been free until now. Yesterday the owner came up to me when I had landed and told me that they will now be making a charge of £350 for use of the helicopter pad! For an R22. Apparently their researches have shown that this is the going rate. I guess they aspire to become a Battersea.
I suggest everybody crosses it off their list.