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If you want to avoid constant turnover and the expense of continual training, you should pay a little more.
IMO, that will be the downfall of VLJ's. It's a high performance high altitude jet from an insurer's perspective and premiums would be prohibitive to put a low time pilot at the helm. The jet's don't haul enough payload to produce the yield needed for an air taxi to pay experienced crews expected rates.Originally Posted by daytonaflyer
For a private company, it would probably be in the mid 60k's, but you will have difficulty retaining your pilots since they can earn significantly more money by leaving to fly bigger airplanes at other companies. If you want to avoid constant turnover and the expense of continual training, you should pay a little more.
Certainly there will be exceptions (the shoulder of the bell curve) but I'm interested to see how the VLJ fleet worldwide deals with this apparent disconnect.