GA's "fair share"

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
Would you feel comfortable renting your aircraft to someone who is
going to leave the country in a month and possibly leave you with a big
"user fee" bill? FBOs like to have clean books and don't have huge
accounting offices. This is a MASSIVE paperwork problem. The fact that
the FBO doesn't know what to really charge the renter for a month or
more is just crap.

But that's already how landing fees work for rental aircraft--the fee is
charged to the owner, on the basis of the tail number. If the owner is an
FBO, then the FBO in turn charges the renter who had the plane when the fee
was incurred. It doesn't seem very difficult.

Or similarly, if you fly a rented plane to Canada (as I did recently),
various user fees, landing fees, and customs fees will be charged to the FBO
that owns the plane.

--Gary