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Robert wrote:
That should be a cost for the
FBO to eat, since it was their maintenance that didn't find the problem to
begin with. And once they eat the cost a few times, you can bet the
maintenance of the planes would improve. The radio would be replaced more
regularly, etc.

Or they'd go out of business or charge $20/hr more for the plane.
They probably already lose money on trip rentals. I'm convinced
that most FBOs only do it at all because it would be hard to sell
people on flight training if they knew up front they couldn't fly
beyond the hundred dollar hamburger.

This $1000 thing is psycological anyway. What if it was a club with
a non-refundable $1000 buy-in? No one would call that "unfair". If
you fly 100 hours a year the total rental on a 172 could vary by more
than $1000 easily! No one says the $85/hr 172 is unfair when compared
to the $75/hr 172. Heck, you didn't even say what the rate was! That
could dwarf this $1000 risk. I paid $2600 for insurance this year and
they won't do a damn thing for me if I break an alternator away from
home.

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Ben Jackson

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