The club operates 4 aircraft, and we do just under 2000 hours a year. Mind you, that includes solo rentals from members, instruction is only about 1/4 of that.
Mind you, that's not bad for solo hiring. Its normally the other way round.I know of a flying club in England where the instructors also do ops. Needless to say all ''prime'' slots get filled up with instructional flight's. I'm not blaming them,I would do the same.
The thing that annoy's me the most from flying club's is the ones that charge very high day membership rate's. I mean what is that all about? Insurance is mostly included in the aircraft insurance. Some flying clubs don't even charge them.
Also flying clubs that charge fuel surcharges on top of the rental price. The price of 100LL/UL91 and Diesel(Jet A1) does not change massively between deliveries. Why not increase/decrease the aircraft rental price on a quarterly basis.
Now as for what students do that annoy's me(instructor), I have a very long list. But that's for another forum.
