I'm a not interested in safety pilot hours unless I"m the one under the hood logging "true PIC" and instrument time. No offense to those out there who built time as safety pilots, I agree that you get SOME experience, but watching what the other guy does...but really, nothing worth paying a full flight hour for. In the end you are paying half the price of the airplane to just sit there and watch the other guy do his thing. I wouldnt' do it.
Now that I think of it, Ari-Ben and allATPs (they advertise 200 and 190 hours multi engine respectively for 26k and 34k respectively, and all FAA ratings).
Now especially Ari-bens is cheap...but they are probably safety pilot hours half of it...so it's really 100 hours PIC multi engine and 100 hours sitting right seat watching a guy fly under the hood.
I can get, at my current school where I got my PPL, 100 hours of PIC multi in SENECA for $16,500. I belive that's probably one of hte cheapest deals around...for a Seneca at least which is more complex than a Duchess or Seminole.
I'm considering just doing it all here...and forgetting these fancy flight schools...and perhaps converting them all to JAA at once later on.
Or just getting my FAA multi/instrument builing hours and then doing the JAA/FAA CPL and instructor ratings...
Archer