411a,
As far as I know the aircraft in question is not flown by a CPL when it is used to ferry crews around but I believe some of our capatins are checked out on it.
I used to fly airline crews around in a PA31, sometimes out of Glasgow, and the incident in question made my blood run cold when I heard about. When I was doing these flights I was aware that the crews where not all that keen on the idea and one of the pilots often used to ask if they could sit in the right hand seat during the flight. Didn't bother me at all, I was quite pleased for the chance to chat and the pilots mostly had a go and seemed quite happy. At the time I could not see what they where bothered about but having flown 2 crew, perf A jet a/c in an airline operation for a good many years I can quite see thier point.
I still fly G/A aircraft outside of work and I am quite happy to accept the risk that it involves but if the company want to position me by air they can do it on a 2 crew, perf A aircraft.