Cessna 172A Question

So your saying that broken & stressed out airplanes are great trainers? With
the condition of his airplanes and the price he was charging is why he was
not getting any customers and went out of business. If a flight school dont
put any money in to the maintiance and upkeep in their aircraft they are
renting (who cares about paint) no one will want to fly them. The aircraft
dont not have to be pristine just airworthy.

I think rentals should have to be maintained and signed off for repairs by
someone other than the owner of the flight school that has an IA.

If the horizantal stablizer has a stress crack's in it don't just patch it
with another pice of aluminum replace it. If the school cannot afford to do
this how they going to afford to stay in business. I would not fly an
airplane that has patches on its airfoils or airframe unless the person that
designed the patch has documentation and an enegenering stamp on the design
of the patch and the patch was approved by the manfacture for that
application. Also if the airplane had enough load on it to stress crack an
airfoil what other cracks can be hidden that you cannot see.

"Rob Perkins" wrote in message
news
"MRQB" wrote:

I feel sorry for
anyone that buys either of his 150's that he has for sale 1 has patches
on
the horizantal stab and is past TBO and a stress crack on the cowling.

Great trainers!

They weren't getting students last summer. People had been spreading
the irresponsible rumor that the whole airport was closed, to the
point where people were telling Jeff at the Arlington show that his
airport had closed the year before, even with him standing in front of
them telling them that he ran the FBO there and no, it wasn't closed.
And it's still not closed.

But that didn't stop the insurance company from sending its bill each
month.

Personally, I feel pleased to have trained at an airport many pilots
don't consider themselves capable of operating out of, in airplanes
which were not pristine. Not only was the cost lower, but you had to
stay on the ball during preflight!

But if you're gonna buy an airplane from Jeff, buy the Cub! And let me
fly it... :-)

The
other has a big ding on the prop, needs battery and interior is roached 2
diffrent seats, looks like it may need some airframe work soon! and
either
leaks a lot of oil for only having 200 hours on recent OH or some one
dont
know how to poor oil in it with out spilling

It's probably the latter. These were student planes, after all.

We had to bang on the DME in that 172 from time to time, to get it to
work at all.

Rob