onthebeach
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- Nov 25, 2001
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OK, here's the pitch:
Biggest problem/hassle in managing frax pilot group time: scheduling required travel to/from the aircraft at beginning/end or hitch, to/from training, etc. Airlines are major hassle, plus limited number of airports with airline service for pilots living in the sticks.
Solution: Buy some Barons (58's or 55's, so long as they are known ice & w/wx radar) and hire some freight dogs to fly them...and/or qualify some of the young hungry guys who want overtime to fly them. Use the Barons as supplemental lift to ferry pilots to/from work and/or training. This would be most cost effective for those folks living in the sticks, least cost effective for those who reside in or very near major hubs. These same Barons could be sold as shares for those people who would go into frax, but are too, shall we say, "low end" to be able to afford shares in a turbine aircraft. Or, the frax operator could set up a multi-engine flight training academy as another way to offset costs.
A frax operator could do this, or some experienced piston fleet operator could develop the package and offer it as a turnkey contract to the frax operator.
This major money-making idea has been offered to you free of charge by our research department in Lowdown, AR. Thanks for your attention to our proposal.
P.S.: ...and no, I'm not looking for a Baron job.
Biggest problem/hassle in managing frax pilot group time: scheduling required travel to/from the aircraft at beginning/end or hitch, to/from training, etc. Airlines are major hassle, plus limited number of airports with airline service for pilots living in the sticks.
Solution: Buy some Barons (58's or 55's, so long as they are known ice & w/wx radar) and hire some freight dogs to fly them...and/or qualify some of the young hungry guys who want overtime to fly them. Use the Barons as supplemental lift to ferry pilots to/from work and/or training. This would be most cost effective for those folks living in the sticks, least cost effective for those who reside in or very near major hubs. These same Barons could be sold as shares for those people who would go into frax, but are too, shall we say, "low end" to be able to afford shares in a turbine aircraft. Or, the frax operator could set up a multi-engine flight training academy as another way to offset costs.
A frax operator could do this, or some experienced piston fleet operator could develop the package and offer it as a turnkey contract to the frax operator.
This major money-making idea has been offered to you free of charge by our research department in Lowdown, AR. Thanks for your attention to our proposal.
P.S.: ...and no, I'm not looking for a Baron job.