On the face of it I am an ideal candidate to “utilise” an aircraft for work. I spend 3 weeks out of 4 in Europe, mostly Germany, Spain and Italy. But I do not see how it would work.
1st I am north mids based so 1 hour flying time from the cost.
Drive time to my aircraft is 20 min, it takes me 35min to EMA, so we have lost 15min so far.
To fly myself I would need 1 hour to plan/check notams sort out maps etc. (all dead time, it does not mater when I do this, it is time I have to spend to do the trip which I cannot use for anything else)
45 min to get the aircraft out, DI, and get her loaded and ready to go (all dead time)
Flight time to Italy must be 5 hours? (all dead time),
30 min to sort out parking / landing fees and get a taxi. (all dead time)
Total time (adjusted for 15 min saving) 7 hours 45 min, all dead time. Cost? £750ish?
To fly Squeasy jet (this is much more accurate than the above as I do it a lot)
1.5 hours before the flight, of which ½ and hour is dead (I can prepare for the meeting for the rest as I am sat in an acceptable work environment)
3 hour flight, of which 20 min is “dead”
45 min getting out and getting bags – all dead
Total time 5:15 of which 3:10 is productive and 2:05 is dead. Cost £60
So it costs more and wastes my time? I can understand you doing it because you can, but how can it make sense economically or from a time management point of view?
Rod1