The folks in the West are OK; CBN and PIK remain active bases and are reasonably accessible by road (i.e. not too bad travel time). In the East choice is rather limited. For Fife/Perthshire folks Glenrothes, Perth and Dundee are all within reasonable distance but nothing exists for Edinburgh, Lothians & Borders. Edinburgh remains staunchly prohibitive to visiting GA and the only other airfield was Kirknewton, permission was required to get in from HQ Air Cadets but still it could be done. Now there is nothing at all for the South East.
Microlighting remains active at East Fortune but apart from that GA options are woeful, Glenrothes etc. remain IMO (although others may feel differently) too far a trek to be realistically accessible to the capital.
A <1000m grass strip to the East of Edinburgh right on the city (and EDI Class D) boundary would be ideal. Plenty of space away from NIMBYs yet accessible to the city centre. If circuit patterns could be adapted to avoid the flightpath for EDI 24 arrivals things would surely work out. There must be tons of people wanting to visit Edinburgh by GA but put off by EDI's Mandatory Handling? Smithy for one would be a regular visitor.
Smithy