Originally Posted by
Taco280AI
But as far as billing goes, only one is charged or they split it? 4 hour flight is billed 2 hours each?
Just want to make sure they aren't trying to double bill PSA or the students. As in a 4 hour flight, both are charged for 4 hours each.
I never saw the bill so I can't be 100% sure, but you report the hours you logged on a weekly and monthly basis to skywarrior which they use for billing PSA. PSA pays for per pilot per hour and not per aircraft. You fly a 4 hour sortie with another RTP pilot and PSA is billed for both pilot times that are logged at $75 per hour per pilot. Granted the safety pilot logs 0.2 less, and I assume charged 0.2 less. My understanding is that PSA is fully aware of this.
Skywarrior won't keep you from flying single pilot if they can't schedule you with another pilot, but flying single pilot is the exception, not the norm. As you can imagine, their margins on a single pilot sortie is extremely slim at $75 per hour, if there is any at all.