WGW Did they let you do your first solo and solo circuits practice at Derby? They used to make you do these and set off on your solo cross-countries from Leicester. This used to add an hour of cost to these lessons. Early on in the course you could use the transit time for some other part of the training, but as you got to the end and had completed the other parts it got rather expensive.
Do they now let their students use their own airfield solo?