Pkb,
Interesting. My local CPL FTO's dont do land away's at all. All nav excersises etc are all out and returns..absolutely no need for a land aways at all. Im not suggesting your wrong in any way, im just surprised that you say there are "more" during the CPL. And if theyre deliberately taking people to 'bigger' airfields where the landing and handling fee's are high then theyre taking the micky. No reason at all why the CPL training, including nav excersies/air work/test etc cant be conducted from the same airfield...i.e. FTO home base. No need to be landing away at expensive airfields.