And what, Sir, makes you think you DIDN'T need a check out? Most places I have flown at require a checkout if you haven't flown 'THEIR' planes withing the last 90 days or so. To make you feel 'not so ABOVE others', we had a NWA DC-10 captain in 2001 who wanted to rent a 152, but he was more than happy to go on a check out ride.
Get off your high horse!
A billing dispute is something else, a check-out ride is a different scenario.
Bunny
High horse? This doesn't have anything to do with a high horse, Miss "I'm not really a commercial pilot, I'm actually a mathematician... no wait, I'm a physics researcher,,, no wait,,, I'm a grad student whose private pilot instructor told her about this board..."
So what are you today? Your posts border on the inane and, since you lack ANY experience in this industry, I think you know what you can do with your opinion.
I think I just figured it out. LearLove, Lear70.....Coincidence? I think not.
And what are you implying, sir?
I've gone back to places where I use to work or ran the joint and never expected any special treatment. What makes me different from any other customer. I go to give back.
That's nice. I go to fly a small airplane for fun because I want to take my wife/daughter/kids at church who are interested in flying.
Nothing makes me different than any other INSTRUCTOR who worked there. None of us should have to go through "check-out" flights after having given hundreds or, in some cases in the early 90's, thousands of hours of instruction in that exact aircraft.
That's simply assinine.
To help give that struggling instructor an hour of flight time and 25 bucks.
Good for you. That's your prerogative. To tell me that I should HAVE to do the same thing is EXTREMELY presumptuous. It's none of your business.
Secondly, an hour of dual is running about $150 bucks right now including the aircraft, not $25, but the money isn't the issue, it's the instructors and/or FBO owner trying to take advantage of an airline pilot. Screw that.
If you don't want to pay for renting an airplane or pay to meet the FBO's legal insurance requirements, then don't rent.
Wrong. And, in my case, the owner agreed.
If an extra .5 hours of a rental fee is that important, maybe you need to rethink your financial position and start putting more money in the bank.
What I have or don't have in the bank is none of your business, and I'm doing just fine, thankyouverymuch. Maybe not NWA DC-10 CA fine, but enough to go play around once or twice a year in a Cessna-beater.
How I SPEND my money is ALSO none of your business. Don't turn this thread into what it's NOT. I never said I didn't have the cash to pay, I said I didn't believe it proper to force a guy who flies every 6 months or so to "checkout".
Now if you haven't touched a single-engine airplane in 2 or 3 years then, as Caveman said, you owe it to yourself to grab the instructor and go do some stalls and your 3/3 as well as at least one instrument approach if you're gonna take it cross-country or in IMC.
But, as Caveman said, exactly how much time should be up to the individual pilot, not the FBO who is there to profit off any hour they can get.
As a 7,000+ hour pilot I'm in a much better professional frame of mind to know what I need to feel competent and comfortable versus a 300 hour instructor. Let him make his money off people learning to fly.
Talk about the blind leading the blind...
