A question that might be related to the comments about the tower being unlit.
How many of you have ever reported a tower's lights as being off? Who do you report it to? Was any action taken? Did you record the fact that the tower was reported as unlit??
Same experience. Many towers unlit, NOTAMed for years, reports ineffective. After one report about a tower I missed (at night) by about 5 feet within the control zone (1 mile from the airport) I was told that only the highest tower in the area needed to be lit. I can't remember how far away it was but I had seen and, I thought, taken a flight path well clear of it for my (helicopter) into wind approach not aligned with a runway.