Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
There are liability issues if the instuctor screws up that your carrier
might choose to try and subrogate. More likely though they just want to rent
airplanes.

Find a new instructor.



"Scott Migaldi" wrote in message
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Now that I am an aircraft owner I wanted to do some training in my
aircraft before I take it up into IMC. I have been doing the typical VFR
types of drills on my own, stalls, slow flight TO/landings, I even shot
some approaches in VFR but not under the hood to make sure all the gizmos
worked. Now I want to be under the hood with a CFII to do some approaches,
holds, DME arc, and unusual attitudes. I contacted a local flight school
to set up an appointment time with an instructor. All was fine until they
asked which of their planes I would be in. I told them I would be in my
own plane and that was the point of all of this. They stated they did not
do any training, BFRs, or IPCs in a non-school aircraft as their insurance
would not cover them.

Since I am the PIC and it is my airplane is it not my insurance that
covers the flight? has anyone else run into this before?



I am an independent CFI, and I only instruct in some one elses airplane
if I know them well and trust their maintenance. In general, in request
that my name be added to their insurance policy. Most independent
CFI's are employed elsewhere, and have assets to protect. It is not
worth risking all that just to make just a few hundred dollars.