Originally Posted by
detpilot
It costs the same as grabbing a Wendy's burger between flights at the home base, and the crew car has free gas. I'm not saying sit there for 3 hours, just shut down, grab a burger, talk about mistakes that were made and how to correct them on the flight home. Sometimes I'll treat my student to the food, more often I can't afford to- but stopping made my cross countries more enjoyable as a student, and it's not that hard to do.
Plus, how's spending 20 minutes on the ground between legs any different pay wise than getting back 20 minutes earlier? Unless your day is packed so full of students that you end up losing money, that is...
I know that I would like this as a student - epsecially IF you bought my lunch
Sitting dow and enjoying the little airport cafe or hanging out at a different FBO can be an enjoyable part of the flying - seeing the world type of stuff (to a small - range of a C-152/172 - extent)
Even now when I am flying cross country I would rather take a few on the ground to enjoy the coke and bag of crackers, or talk to the pretty FBO girl(s) than running in to throw down the credit card for the quickest gas-n-go humanly possible and then off again. There are enough times when I HAVE to do that - I like to enjoy the other times if possible.
In the end, it just MIGHT make the student enjoy the whole experience even more and that can't be a bad thing for instructing/instructors.
USMCFLYR