Originally Posted by
runsky42
I prefer using the company credit card. Yes maybe you could make a little on perdiem but I would rather spend the company money then my own.
Can you expound on this thinking a little more since it isn't the first time I've heard this - but I don't feel that I'm spending MY money in any case with per diem. I have a travel account and I guess I *float* the payment, but I've been doing that for over 20 years and have never had a problem.
I eat the way I would if it was my own money.
Concur. I do the same. The guys who like to have a few drinks on the road seem to be the ones who end up spending more than per diem; and that is fine.
One last Con, being on two completely different airframes with no extra pay. Its tuff going from one you have been flying for 3 weeks then you bounce back to the other you probably haven't seen in a month, and I was told by scheduling that they fly me just enough to keep current in the smaller airframe.
I've never flown two airplanes at once in my entire flying career barring my earliest flying a C-172 and Piper Warrior at the same time.
When I started my job, many pilots were dual rated and I stiff armed it for sometime. Since then they have stopped dual typing people for now, but I was getting to the point where I felt that I was going to have to *put my big boy pants on* and suck it up. Seems that a majority of my peers have flown multiple airframes throughout much of their careers; one friend even flying 5 different aircraft (and I'm not talking GA aircraft here!) though he will readily admit that he is overloaded.
For those that have flown multiple types at a time as runsky mentions, do you find it easier to fly two similar aircraft though many of the numbers (systems and speeds for instance may only be a few knots difference) let's say a KA300 -vs- C90 or completely different airframes with little similarities if any - say a KA300 -vs- L60?