"Crash Lander" wrote in message
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Thanks Peter. I often wondered about daily minimums. I thought it would be
like 5 hours a day, but I guess realistically a rented a/c would only do
about 2 on average per day. True?

The minimum that an FBO charges, and how they charge it, depends on the FBO.
This particular "feature" varies a lot. For sure, the minimum is just
that...it's not set on what the airplane might normally see in use, but
rather based on what the FBO sees as the minimum charge it needs from the
airplane to ensure it's not losing money, as well as on what the FBO
believes pilots will be willing to put up with.

In addition, many FBOs set different minimums during the summer and winter,
as the airplane is likely to get less use during the winter anyway.

An FBO running a flight school with a number of active pilots may well see
more than two hours of usage per day for their airplanes, especially in the
summer. But if they set their daily minimum to something closer to the
actual utilization, pilots would find another FBO where they could more
reasonably take the plane on multi-day trips (and would probably not bother
to rent from the first FBO for smaller blocks of time).

Pete