Why bother with the A Check?
Most flying club Cessna 152s are showing their age. When hiring one of these and finding faults when doing the A check one inevitably finds long faces when returning to reception to report. One feels one is seen as a trouble maker.
Some responses I have received (there are from two different flying clubs)
No fire extinquisher: "There's one on order"
Landing light not working: "You won't be flying a night"
Nav light not working: (ditto)
Left door doesn't open from the inside: "Everyone else lives with it"
Pitot heat not working : "You won't need it unless you are flying over 5000 feet"
The irony is that you as a club member gets bollocked for breaking one of a multitude of rules, many of them quite petty.
(Sorry for the rant!)