However, if there is a U/S sticker on the aircraft or on the e-booking system, this shouldn't surely put potential students off? Its just realistic. Sometimes, you just can't help it if an aircraft is u/s for a long time.
Realistic for a piece of equpiment to be U/S yes I agree, not all equpiment will be working 100% of the time and there will be downtime. However, if there are loads of stickers over the panel then that is not realistic.
Also if week after week when you turn up to fly, the same stickers are there that to me does not say that the owner is taking an active interest in rectifying the issue.
If a new PPL student were to sit in an aircraft and see all the stickers I doubt they would be thinking "its realistic", they would be probably be thinking "Oh dear". Especially if you prices are not 'bargain basement' students will expect what they pay for, not half of it.
Its what drove me away from renting in the end, a good majority of the school fleets were quite frankly knackered!
J.