Mxsmanic wrote:

Mike writes:

Some large airports charge hefty landing and ramp fees, so you may
wind up with a $150 or so charge you hadn't expected. This is how they
discourage the little guys from landing.

How do they organize the payment?

If they find out it's you, they send large, strong, brutish men to beat
the crap out of you until you plead for mercy and offer them any amount
of money to make them stop. Then they laugh derisively and take what
they want from you.

Guess it's a good thing you don't actually fly, eh?

I would have guessed that ATC would prefer that everyone be IFR

What you would have guessed is irrelevant.