In article , Ron wrote:
Who is going to be willing to pay for 25 hours with an instructor?

Hardly anyone. You may get some people who do their Commercial
instruction (so they aren't just doing a 25 hour checkout).

However, the insurance might be negotiable. For example, when our club
had a Bonanza, it had fairly onerous checkout requirements. I had
significant enough time in other retracts that they reduced the dual
time requirement for me to 5 hours, followed by 5 hours solo. Had I
needed a 25 hour checkout I'd have never bothered - it would cost far
too much money before I could make any use of the plane.

There were never very many members checked out in the Bonanza, but it
did fly a reasonable amount, and it was almost entirely used for
cross country trips.

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