Pistonbroke.....
I feel your focus is not perhaps where it should be - - - you're happy to have a safety pilot.....just don't want to pay for it!
Denham ask for a club checkout, which includes local famil, because we operate within the London CTR.
Visiting pilots are (or should be) briefed by the tower when they call for PPR - that's why it says in Pooleys PPR By Telephone. You'd be amazed at how many people don't either phone first OR/AND don't fully read Pooleys and end up infringing class A. Most of the time, Heathrow Special or Northolt (whoever holds the aerospace that day) simply and quietly issue a sqwauk via Denham tower and vector the offender out of harms way...other times Departures get delayed.
Now, are we profiteering......or are we acting responsibly?