Wow! What an outlook. My comments:
1) If a type in the GV is 50 grand, and the budget for the GV department is 3.7 million per year (lease payment 200K / mo, 400 hours @ $1,500 doc, 3 pilots @ 150K, hangar 60K, insurance 200K), the 3 type ratings would be 4% of the annual budget (as you can see, we've run these numbers. Anytime you tell a rich person (AKA boss) that 50K is like finding a penny, you just sound ignorant.
If you have managed to acquire a GV and 2 pilot training slots and 1 AMT slot were not part of the deal, then you just do not know what you are doing and have no business being trusted with the logistics involved in the process. I would not use the analogy of finding a penny when trying to explain this to the primary, and you know that. I've been doing this long enough to know things like that. If you read my post you took away from it that I was commenting on how a lot of "old school" DOs operate, not the person writing the check. If you are looking at a GV, how much a type cost should not be a factor in getting it. It's the cost of doing business; period. If you want to play, you have to pay. Do you not want the pilots trained? Is that an area in which you want to cut corners? It sounds like your company looked at the GV and discovered that they could not resonably afford to operate it. There is no shame in that, but no reason to be bitter about it.
2) What other important 'projects' is a pilot working on? I don't know about you, but my job's pretty straight forward and defined.
My job and that of the other pilots working in the department have well defined duties as well. If your attitude is I am a pilot, so I only fly then I go home, well, that says a lot about you and your work ethic. Not that I think I owe you an explaniation, but I am going to answer your question in hopes of teaching you. Other important projects include, researching the use of EFBs, negotiation of fuel discounts, overflight permits, negotiating training contracts, stream-lining the operation to make it as efficient as possible, securing alternative uplift options in our most traveled cities, establishing safety procedures (on-going), revising our disaster plans, [font="]continuity of management travel policies, [/font]policy revisions (spouse/dependent traveling with company on a space availabe basis, ect), and procurement of pilot tools such as laptops, cell phone, ect. just to name a few of the things that an operation the size of ours has to deal with. Do I need to go on? So yes, we like to see our pilots in the office from time to time. Is it required, no. Will you get fired if you don't come in, no. Do we care if you come in and do other projects, no. Will your bonus be multiplied by the # of days per week you average in the office, yes. Will your hard work get noticed, yes. If you ever leave us will you have the skills and confidence to run your own place, yes. Would we hire a pilot with an attitude like yours, No. Please send me your name and the names of your friends that are just like you so I can stay on the look out.
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ps: drink more water
