Most aircraft owners view this as their hobby and expect the mechanic
to treat it as his hobby also. These same owners will balk and raise
hell about paying $60 an hour for an A&P, but gladly pay the Chevy
dealer $90 an hour to work on his SUV.


The pilots I know are willing to pay fair value for services rendered.
I'm guessing you didn't spend multi-million on a facility, $250 grand in
shop equipment and diagnostic analyzers. If you did you are likely to have a
1st class facility that would draw plenty of aircraft repair business that
would pay you $90 an hour. Heck you could publish a reasonable fixed rate
for inspections and I'm sure you can get plenty of business that way also.
But you sound like you have an unreasonable expectation of what a mechanics
should earn. Keep you A&P/IA to yourself, the world doesn't need another
service provider with a chip on their shoulder.