ct8282
I read your post as far as
My local airfield is Shoreham
and smiled
You have picked an airfield many of us choose to avoid as much as possible. To me, any essentially GA airfield that is pretentious enough to have an ATIS is worth keeping clear of.
I only visit Shoeham when I have to, and the most pleasure I got was managing to park (at the far end), visit who we had to, never wore a yellow jacket and they didn't notice
As ZA says, just go and find a club / strip where you are not treated as a cash machine. Plenty with minimal, even no, ATC...
Location is clearly an issue - and I am not saying they are perfect examples (but surely better than Shoreham) - but Redhill, Goodwood spring to mind if you need licensed airfields / clubs / schools / aircraft for hire. As soon as you can move from these to strips / unlicensed / LAA types fun will increase in proportion to costs going down
I'm sure some of you will find someway to criticise this thread
Not while it's knocking Shoreham I won't
NoD
PS To stop offending, can you alter the thread title e.g. change 'England' to the name of an airfield near Worthing