Aircraft condition

[pascaly]

I recently leased one of my 752s out, the airline returned it after suffering severe financial trouble.  When the aircraft came back to me, it needed a D and C check and was at 19% condition.  To return it to 100% will take about $23 million and take 96 days.  As a lessor, I don't like that it's my responsibility to clean up other airlines' misfortune.  While the affected airline may not be able to pay for it, maybe my insurance could pay for it? 

I don't want to make this a feature request until I have some feedback on this, but it will cost me millions more to fix the plane than I made by leasing it.  Also, the value of the aircraft is around $50 million and it's around 11 years old.

Anyone else experienced this or have any opinion?

[Dookz]

I think the C and D checks will return it to top condition

[psw231]

 when you buy an ac and you don't want to be responible for a D check you have to make sure thet there is 7 years or less left in your game world, if your game world has 7 years or more left in perform the checks and lease them out again and you should make a profit over that period. No person leasing an ac will perform a D check and will allways try to return it just before a C check

[Sigma]

This is something that was already a Feature Request actually (a couple times).

It is exceedingly common for lessors to get planes returned in very poor condition, something that would never be allowed to happen in the real-world, and if it did the lessor would have means of collecting funds from the airline (bankrupt or otherwise) in order to rectify it.

Hopefully though, at least in your case, the D-Check and C-Check that are required already will address the condition problem.  Since you would have to do those anyway, you may end up not being out any "extra" money at all.

Here's the longest thread on the subject:  https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,9810.0.html

[Powi]

Note that C-check is included in the D-check... you only need to do the big D.

[schro]

Ultimately, thats one of the risks of leasing planes out to other airlines.  Its no fun to have to scrap a fairly new plane as a result of poor maint, but that happens in the real world (i.e. there's already been a 777 scrapped due to this).

[pascaly]

Thanks for the responses, Sigma especially.

You're right schro, it is a risk, pity I can't make a claim to my insurance!