"gatt" wrote in message
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Gig 601Xl Builder wrote:
gatt wrote:

Comments/experience?

Thanks in advance!

-c


Treat it as you would any other business deal. Run the numbers. Since you
trust the guy running you can probably trust the estimated number of
hours he gives you for hour/month.

Thanks. The good news there is that I can look through the schedule and
see for myself how many hours a month the present 152 flies. It's
averaging about 6 hours a day through the 21st at $68/hr.

Keep in mind though that the price of fuel will have a direct effect on
the number of hours the plane will be rented.

Yeah. Hasn't yet, but, it's a matter of time. On the flipside, a lot of
people are doing their primary training in the 172s based on availability
alone. Even one of those is averaging about 6 hours a day at $98/hr wet.
Higher fuel prices and increased availability might shift some of that
scheduling down to a less-expensive aircraft.

-c


Just as food for thought, a fully loaded C152 (which is rarely more than
student, instructor, and fuel) performs a lot like a fully loaded
C172--other than the fact that the CG will usually remain more nearly
centered in the C152. The result is that the C152 could make the transition
to actually operating as a licensed PIC a little easier. At least that is
what it was designed t do--and there are plenty of contributors here with a
lot more experience to comment on the success of that concept.

Peter