Fair point Bose-X, you are correct there, but I'd argue that VFR light singles don't require ILS, nor do they require "handling". Anyway, just my opinion...
Incidentally, ATC at Edinburgh are excellent.
englishal: So did you also get the little van to drive you the couple of hundred yards to the building?
Smithy
Just because you don't use them does not mean they are not available!! Unless of course you want the controllers and firecrew, etc etc etc not to paid just because you did not use them?
As far as the handling is concerned,, if you don't ask you don't get. I get driven into town by them. Just as when I fly to Birmingham I get driven to the NEC. If I pay for a service I expect to get it. I also get my flight plans flied by them, weather reports etc.
I expect to pay paid handsomely for the work that I do and expect in a capitalist world that others also expect paying........