Beach Runs?

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
news
The new aspect to this is that this would include not just airworthiness
items but "treatment" items (ie. spilled coffee, trash, etc.).

A lot more things to check on an aircraft than on a car... I had my aircraft
on leaseback at one time... The students (or instructors) seemed to have a
habit of stripping the gears on the radio controls... Eventually, I replace
the radios with ones that did not seem to be succeptible to this problem and
cut down my repair bills quite a bit... I also had a problem with them
grabbing the wrong part of the canopy to slide it forward and cracking the
plastic... Factoring in the fact that my plane seemed never available for me
to fly it on a weekend trip, I decided around 7 years ago that it wasn't
really worth it having it on leaseback... Unfortunately, I didn't learn this
until a lot of wear and tear had been done on my plane which had been
completely refurbished prior to the leaseback... If you're an A&P and can do
the 100 hour inspections yourself, a leaseback can be profitable... When
you're still having to pay nearly the shop rate for your inspections, it is
not all that profitable...