Originally Posted by
rdneckpilot
I think quite a few of the numbers being tossed around are low. I charge 400 per day plus all expenses to fly a B58, 350 per day right seat for King Air, 550 per day left seat king air. There is not enough jet business in my area to keep current on the jets I'm typed in so I just stick with the king air and piston twin. Don't know what guys around here charge for jet.
Keep in mind I work with private owners so I don't have some blood sucking management company working as middle man skimming off my income. I do know of one management company that charges 650/350 per day plus expenses for a king air crew. They only pay the pilots 450/250. If they payed for the recurrent training I could see it but they don't.
FYI-- you should be charging the SAME for right seat/left seat days... if you are using YOUR TIME to fly for someone else, and you are captain qualified, then you charge the same rate per day for a particular aircraft-- because you COULD be flying for someone else making captain pay... so the charge will *always* be the same!
If we start setting precedents like this, owner's come to expect to not pay as much when using "just a right-seater"... bad bad bad.
Also, I own a "blood-sucking management company", and I do not skim anything off the top... also we work under the philosophy of charging minimum for monthly fees--- mostly because I was sick of seeing management companies charge owners 8-10k/mo to "manage" the plane, and then the pilots would do all the work for crap pay.... then the MC would take all of the credit.