Your assessment is about spot on imho. No one is allowed to exercise common sense these days, it seems.
Nope!
i dismised donair, more from preference and gut instinct but they did come across professional - in fact i was thinking of doing my night rating with them to get good epxerience from East mids also.
EM is a very interesting place to fly, I also did a Night Endorsement there, although the departure lounge lighting keeps everything lit up clear as day, which is a bit of a cheat! - also it took me one and half hours to do 5 full stop landings due to heavy commercial traffic!! orbiting on the downwind leg at night was fun at first, but my wallet soon got bored of it
