we had a Bonanza here at one time on the rental line.. I'm not sure of the
paper work involved.. but the FBO did remove two seats and certified same to
the insurance company to keep the insurance down.

BT

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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Our flying club's insurance company is reluctantly allowing us to insure
our Lance, but they have said that they don't like 6 seaters in clubs. A
year ago they told us that anybody who flew the Lance had to put at least
3 hours in the previous 90 days or do a "proficiency check" with a club
instructor every time they flew it, then they told us that's not enough,
and you have to do 15 hours a year in it and ground training and they
need
a list of all the pilots and you could only have 8 pilots on the list.
We're wondering what they're going to do next year. So we're thinking
about what happens when we can't keep it any more.

More than the 6 seats, what I like best about the Lance is that it's
roomier side-to-side than an Archer or Dakota. Are there any four
seaters
out there that are as wide as a Lance that don't cost too much?

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
The only problem is that if we found the Holy Grail, we'd have to support
it
and explain to the lusers which way to tip it so that they don't get the
elixer of life down the front of their tasteless shirts. -- Wayne Pascoe

I wonder what their logic is. Why don't you offer to put crash dummies in
two of the seats? I could understand if they wanted a certain number of
hours to fly retractable, multi, pressurized airplanes or others with
funcional differences but I don't understand why they have an issue with
the number of seats. It seems that they could just add 50% to the
liability premium (above a four seater) and be done with it.

Mike
MU-2