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Dan Stromberg wrote:

> Incidentally, how do they generally work that?  Obviously, I would 
> expect to get charged for Hobbs time, but do most FBOs have separate 
> additional charges based on the time that you physically have the > plane?

Around here, the way it works is you're charged only for Hobbes
time .... but the FBO requires a certain number of Hobbes hrs
per day that you have the plane (usually 3 for a popular plane
like a C172, often less for a more expensive rental which is
less utilized).

So if you keep the plane 3 days, but only fly 4 hrs, you might
get charged an additional rental fee for 5 hrs you didn't fly.
Sometimes the rental fee will be a normal full rental hour; other
times the additional rental fee will be a discounted percentage.
 
So the tendency for the economical renter is, not to fly trips
which won't meet the minimum Hobbes rental per day.  

Ironically, this means as a renter, it may work out to keep the 
plane for a week and fly 1800 miles while keeping the plane for a
weekend and flying 200 miles would be too expensive.

> I haven't rented yet (still finishing up on the PPL), but I'm 
> wondering if it works like some car rentals do ($x/day + "mileage").

Nowhere I've heard of 

> And is this something that's pretty standardized?

It works this way every place I've heard of, but that leaves
plenty of room for variation.

Snowbird


