Are you sure you have to book Chuck Street through Group3?
Maybe things have changed, but I've seen posts by people who've booked direct.
Website:
Commander Chuck
E-mail:
[email protected]
BTW, I don't think he's an instructor, although by all accounts he's a very experienced B206 pilot, a good teacher and will teach if the pilot wants that. I'm not sure it matters if he's an instructor for hours-building purposes. The FAA don't have type ratings and you'll be flying on an FAA ticket in American airspace.
If you need a JAA/CAA type rating at home, you'll need to do a conversion - but that should be a doddle after a week flying the B206.
You say the cost of self-fly is much the same.
Do you mean by cost sharing? Or have you found somewhere you can SFH a B206 for $135 per hour. If the latter, I think people needing turbine time would be very keen to know where it is!