airport cars

Well, let's see now.

In order to join, I have to provide a car, maintain it, and insure it. To
boot, I pay $50 a year for the privilege of borrowing somebody else's car
that MIGHT be at the airport I'm headed for.

That doesn't really sound like a heck of a deal to me.

Now if it was $250 to join if I DIDN'T have to provide a car or free if I
did, and if part of that $250 was rebated back to me as a function of useage
of my car to help with the maintenance and insurance, it might be a little
more tempting.

I'm no insurance expert, nor do I play one on tv, but it seems to me that
there is a "borrow" clause in my personal insurance policy that if I BORROW
somebody's car and get into an accident that my insurance covers that
vehicle to the extent that it would cover my own car in the same accident.

Jim

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle


"Kobra" wrote in message
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Flyers,

I was reading my Pilot Getaways Mag this morning and found an article
about something I've been thinking about myself for years.

It is an internet based Airport courtesy car club.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
m...
Well, let's see now.

In order to join, I have to provide a car, maintain it, and insure it. To
boot, I pay $50 a year for the privilege of borrowing somebody else's car
that MIGHT be at the airport I'm headed for.

That doesn't really sound like a heck of a deal to me.

Now if it was $250 to join if I DIDN'T have to provide a car or free if I
did, and if part of that $250 was rebated back to me as a function of
useage of my car to help with the maintenance and insurance, it might be a
little more tempting.

Good points....AAMOF I forwarded your suggestion on to the owner of the
site. He said giving money back to owners for usage gets sticky as far as
insurance liability goes. He said he would consider other options similar
to what you suggested so as not to muddy the waters

Kobra

Yeah, things get "sticky". Twenty years ago we left a junker wagon at the
local airport with the keys at the fbo for anybody that fly in could use.
The wagon got taken a couple of hundred miles away from the airport by an
asshole that abandoned it for us to truck home. There were several comments
that since the air conditioning wasn't working that they weren't going to
put gas in it.

When it got to the thousand dollar a year liability we pulled the plug.

Quite frankly, some (most) pilots are pigs that think the world owes them a
living because they are pilots. Don't come on here proclaiming your virtue;
I have hard evidence to the contrary.

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle


"Kobra" wrote in message
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"RST Engineering" wrote in message
m...
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Good points....AAMOF I forwarded your suggestion on to the owner of the
site. He said giving money back to owners for usage gets sticky as far as
insurance liability goes. He said he would consider other options similar
to what you suggested so as not to muddy the waters

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle


"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
Yeah, things get "sticky". Twenty years ago we left a junker wagon at the
local airport with the keys at the fbo for anybody that fly in could use.
The wagon got taken a couple of hundred miles away from the airport by an
asshole that abandoned it for us to truck home. There were several
comments that since the air conditioning wasn't working that they weren't
going to put gas in it.

When it got to the thousand dollar a year liability we pulled the plug.

Quite frankly, some (most) pilots are pigs that think the world owes them
a living because they are pilots. Don't come on here proclaiming your
virtue; I have hard evidence to the contrary.

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle


"Kobra" wrote in message
. ..

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
m...
.

Good points....AAMOF I forwarded your suggestion on to the owner of the
site. He said giving money back to owners for usage gets sticky as far
as insurance liability goes. He said he would consider other options
similar to what you suggested so as not to muddy the waters

*most*??

The burden for proof is much higher for "most", but "some" is almost
clearly true....

RST Engineering wrote:

Quite frankly, some (most) pilots are pigs that think the world owes them a

"RST Engineering" ...
Quite frankly, some (most) pilots are pigs that think the
world owes them a living because they are pilots.

Most ?!?,... the problem with that thinking is you dread every person
walking thru the door. It almost becomes self-fulfilling.

My experience is that the pilot population is quite a "normal distribution"
in that male characteristic. ;-)

Now "collage kids", that's another group.

"Mike Isaksen" ...

Now "collage kids", ....


Yikes !! I went to college, but I can't spell college. Sad!
;-)

Collage is a perfectly good art form that you can learn as an art major in
college.

Jim

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle


"Mike Isaksen" wrote in message
news:%JRxk.782$Dj1.463@trnddc02...

"RST Engineering" ...
Quite frankly, some (most) pilots are pigs that think the
world owes them a living because they are pilots.

Most ?!?,... the problem with that thinking is you dread every person
walking thru the door. It almost becomes self-fulfilling.

My experience is that the pilot population is quite a "normal
distribution" in that male characteristic. ;-)

Now "collage kids", that's another group.

"MI" == Mike Isaksen writes:

MI Most ?!?,... the problem with that thinking is you dread every
MI person walking thru the door. It almost becomes
MI self-fulfilling.

Jim doesn't dread every person walking through his door. He relishes
the chance for combat and creates every opportunity for same.
--
"You, Mr. Wilkes, will die either of the pox or on the gallows."
-The Earl of Sandwich

Quite frankly, some (most) pilots are pigs that think the world owes them
a
living because they are pilots.

Spoken like a true FAA employee.

Actually, in my experience, 'most' pilots are mature, responsible, reliable
and affluent adults.

'Some' I will not even attempt to argue with you on.

Kobra