Originally Posted by
johni
3 days work for an OPC? That's about £1,350 you are paying the company.
The
operator recently recruited for temporary summer pilots and had a lot of highly qualified/experienced applicants, so obviously pilots are happy to put up with this and there is no shortage of pilots.
3 days work at normal onshore freelance rates is £1650 for the weight category. I believe however the operation in question there are akin to what your estimate is.
When you say experienced applicants did any hold the type rating therefore less exposed? Or were all aware of the costs to pay to a hems charity in order to be a VFR copilot on a multi crew IFR operation?