Originally Posted by A and C
Who wins?
Well lets think about this the school is now charging the same chock to chock rate but only putting 20 minuits of airframe and engine time on the aircraft they are also reducing the fuel burn as the aircraft burns considerably less fuel when taxing than is will in the air.
The student gets about 50% less landings per hour so will probably have to fly a few more hours to get up to the required standard.
As a money making scam its faultless!
Can't see how the maintenance times are affected as air time is normally calculated from the first Take Off to the last Landing or by some other method such as from the first Brakes Off to the last Brakes On less 0.2 hours for SUTTO, as recorded in the Flight Tech Logs.
I've never heard of anyone calculating air time for each separate flight from a series of Stop and Go circuits.
Saying that, I wholeheartedly agree with you that it does appear to be a revenue creating scheme. If students are now only getting 3 or 4 circuits per hour instead of 6, 7 or even 8 it stands to reason they are probably going to need more flying hours to achieve and maintain the required standard.
But, hey, their taxying will be the best you've ever seen!
