ezydriver:
On a Saturday if the weather is nice and ATC have tower doing ground as well you can hear the irritation in soem controllers voice when PPLs want in and out of the zone or the airfield, its just very busy.
I think you're being unfair to EDI controllers. There is one individual who tends to get a bit more stressed than the others when it's busy, but in my experience he's just as irritable with the many cases of foreign airline and bizjet pilots who clearly haven't read Edinburgh's AIP entry or don't have the aerodrome chart in front of them as he is with light aircraft wanting zone transits etc. I can't recall a case of a light aircraft calling up EDI for a zone transit and being told to remain outside CAS and stand by, then not getting a clearance. I don't believe there's any ATC irritation with light GA at Edinburgh, in fact if anything it's the opposite because light aircraft make the job more interesting.
NS