Hi all
I got a jumpseat to Sligo not so long ago and the F50 was a Denim Air hire in.Both pilots had coughed up the E45K for the Type and were not earning huge money.The Arran guys were earning more, which was why some of the Denim/VLM guys had jumped ship,forked out for the ATR rating and were fulltimers for RE. They were both graduates of the Dutch NLS school and the Government had funded that and they had walked straight into Denim Air out of school.Either way, I regard E45K for a Type on a semi-obsolete aircraft as an out-and-out scam.Anyone paying it is daft.
regards
TDD