Originally Posted by
QuietSpike
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.
Valid points. I'll act on them. And you are correct all management companies are not the same. I have dealt with both extremes and it never ceases to amaze me what some owners will pay and the lies they will believe.
Thanks for the input on pay vs. seat. I never really applied much thought to it. One of those situations where I started in the right and moved to the left. If I get utilized in the right seat that was the pay applied. It seems to be time for a little chat with the owner.
