Hi,

You mixed em up, Tradewinds Aviation is $90, no clue what nice air is
but $80 sounds like what they would reasonably charge.

You are correct - I got the $80 and $90 the wrong way round. I got the info
from their respective web site: www.tradewindsaviation.com and
www.niceair.net.

I rent late 70s
archers out of tradewinds, which were $90 an hour in early 2004, $93
during the price jumps of 2004, and $97 an hour now. They haven't gone
up in several months (when avgas was a tad over $3 a gallon at RHV as
opposed to $4 now), I'm expecting a price increase of $5-$10 soon now
which will very likely lead to the end of my flying days.

I did my Instrument Rating in those Archers; and Private in the 172s (1978
models) and my CSEL in the Cutlass (no longer in the fleet).


Which club at
RHV are you talking about, squadron 2?

Yeah. I was trying not to be specific, but I guess through process of
elimination...


At tradewinds, after the 2004
gas increases eased off, I asked em to go back to $90 an hour, take a
wild guess whether it worked :-(

Well, management has changed there a couple of times recently and rumor has
it that it will change again in the new few weeks, so we'll see.

Hilton