Originally Posted by Martin Grade
We are currently using an Aviation consultancy and exploring the possibility of buying an EC155 to be used by our company chairman for arround 300 hours a year. The consultancy company we are using has advised a salary itro £70,000 for a South Coast based pilot and he must have an ATPL(h) with Instrument rating, they say the instrument rating is vital.... They also advise that we consider a young co pilot (ie hours builder) but used as safety pilot when planning poor weather transits etc. Is the Instrument rating necessary, as we dont think the boss or his family want to travel in poor weather due airsickness and discomfort etc.
Martin,
To be blunt, why are you considering buying a very expensive IFR twin, obviously on the recommendation of your Aviation Consultancy to whom you are paying for the advice, and then modifying your original post with the caveat "we don't think the boss (snip) will want to travel in poor weather due airsickness and discomfort etc"?
Either you have provided the wrong parameters for your Consultants to advise on, or you are moving the goalposts to justify saving on a decent pilot
As already stated (in not so many words): you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Either do the job properly with the right tools and the right staff at the right salary, or don't do it at all. Or become another accident statistic
