On Nov 25, 5:42*am, A Lieberma wrote:

Agree Matt for airplane owners, but I guess some forgiveness should be
given for "renters" for practicality purposes.

I don't know of any airplane that has all the user manuals for all the
avionics in the plane. *I would suspect checkout should include
instructions on Xponder operations and during training as well.

I never got such training.

Ok, so if you come in and want to rent a C-172 but have never flown
with a 430 should I require you to do a 5 hour training course? I
thought most pilots wanted simplier checkouts, not longer. I think the
rated pilot renter is responsible for figuring out what he doesn't
know (and needs to know) and figuring the answer out, either by
looking up on-line manuals or asking a CFI. Its not fair to require 5
to 10 hour checkouts in every 172 just because some pilots will not
otherwise learn the avionics specific to the aircraft.

-Robert, CFII