Rainbow Air Renting
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Malmesbury, UK
I'm going to Rainbow Air in September and will be renting their newish Archer III. I have found them very easy to deal with, sometime a little slow on replies but overall ok. I've got around the 600 mile limit so I think it just depends on your own circumstances experience etc. With regard to Air Desert, they are ok too the only problem is that I wanted their Arrow and my friend (works for BA) visited them in May and said the Arrow was a bit of a wreck and had clearly been used and abused so he put me off that. Rainbow was the next choice and I was "sold" on the idea of renting a 3 year old plane so that was that. Another plus point is that I was able to deal with Jim Powell of UK Flight Training here in the UK who has set everything up including hotel accomodation. This was then all confirmed in an e-mail by Dave Parsons VP of Rainbow Air.
Joined: Jun 2002
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From: Kilmacolm
Hi Ace BigCat,
Was that ADPs Arrow III N47455? Or one of their Arrow II's? I flew their Arrow III in September/October 2001 and it was really nice with HSI, etc etc. Their Arrow II's weren't up to much though.
As for taking the aircraft away, back then they required a PPL and nothing else to take the aeroplane anywhere in the States. This is exactly what I did. However since then they have changed the Insurance requirements to require an Instrument to take it away for more than a day and more than 350nm away from KPOC.
Another problem is that all aircraft are now unable to leave the bounds of California, Nevada and Arizona for insurance purposes, even if you have an Instrument Rating.
The reason for knowing this is that I now have an FAA CPL/IR (okay FAA CP-ASEL IA) and have asked about flying coast to coast using their Arrow III. Unfortunately, even for repeat customers I'd be limited to the three states mentioned before.
Best wishes,
Charlie Zulu.
Was that ADPs Arrow III N47455? Or one of their Arrow II's? I flew their Arrow III in September/October 2001 and it was really nice with HSI, etc etc. Their Arrow II's weren't up to much though.
As for taking the aircraft away, back then they required a PPL and nothing else to take the aeroplane anywhere in the States. This is exactly what I did. However since then they have changed the Insurance requirements to require an Instrument to take it away for more than a day and more than 350nm away from KPOC.
Another problem is that all aircraft are now unable to leave the bounds of California, Nevada and Arizona for insurance purposes, even if you have an Instrument Rating.
The reason for knowing this is that I now have an FAA CPL/IR (okay FAA CP-ASEL IA) and have asked about flying coast to coast using their Arrow III. Unfortunately, even for repeat customers I'd be limited to the three states mentioned before.
Best wishes,
Charlie Zulu.
