On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:44:22 GMT, vaughn wrote:

"Gezellig" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:05:27 -0800, BT wrote:
when the transition to "steam" is most
probably inevitable when newbies go to rent GA.

My situation is quite different. At my local FBO/flight school the "steam
guage" rental Cessnas have been disappearing in favor of much newer planes
with glass. For insurance reasons I don't fly anything worth that kind of
money, so the pool of planes available to me has been shrinking.

Secondary question: Why do folks rent $250,000 planes when the most renter's
insurance you can buy is usually $100,000?

Prolly for the same reason they buy medical insurance with $35K limits,
the rest they say "sue me" over


Most newbie PPLs will rent Cessnas, think about how that will be when
their first rental solos are in steam gauges.

Don't most newbie PPLs train at their local FBO? The same place where
they will be renting?

Vaughn

Here we have six training and four of them rent, two other rents only,
mostly Cessnas.