The problem with these threads is that the postings are mostly negative.
I can take an airplane, without a flightplan (
) hop over to the airport next door (85 total in FL
) and fly practice ILS approaches till I run out of gas without paying anything but fuel tax.
I can do the same. Not 85 airports, and not free, but for £20 I can fly an ILS at say Lydd almost anytime.
There there is Manston, Southampton, Bournemouth, Southend.
For practice approaches, I never land, because that just wastes time.
What one does have to do is phone the airport first, to book a "slot". Otherwise you can find somebody (usually a school) has booked it and you have to fly around to waste time. And one also needs to phone ahead with one's credit card details for the billing, if not landing there.
And once, at Manston, some "instructor" said to me it is illegal to fly an IAP in VMC unless one has a safety pilot. Ergo, ipso facto, it is illegal to fly an ILS, single pilot, in anything better than OVC002. I bet he posts here too
What we do have a lot of in Europe is airports run by Mickey Mouse MBA types, who are not interested in aviation (they make an exception for a Gulfstream with Donald Trump in it, of course, salivating all over the tarmac while rolling out the red carpet) and run the airport as a job creation scheme. I don't know what can be done about that...