pay for piston twin pilot?

[Sticky]

Loved the survey work - like flying a 5 hour ILS.

Isn't that the truth! Flew over the DC ADIZ today for 4.3 hours at FL190 in a C310. Ground speeds south bound were 205, and north was 141. Felt bad for the photographer though...so many drift changes.

 

[NoPax]

Ground speeds south bound were 205, and north was 141.

When I was survey flying, we had to fly our lines +/- 10m laterally, +/- 50ft vertically and +/- 10kts GS. All while not banking over 3 degrees (while we were on the line). We had target altitudes for the lines, and groundspeed for the shutterspeed of the camera that was set prior to takeoff.

I got to do Monterey CA and the San Francisco Bay area, all from about 3500ft - think it was a FEMA contract.

With winds like that we probably would have had to do them one-way or cancel the mission.

 

[sleepy16]

Hey, thanks for your help ya'll!!! Maybe I'll be lucky and get over 30K out of him. -and demand a few hard days off a month - Now I know not to take a penny less.

 

[Gutenberg]

I get 250 per charter, and some commission on whatever fat I can add to the bill. Baron 58, single pilot mostly. Sometimes I have an SIC who gets 125. I also instruct full time though. We have one plane and I do all the marketing, advertisement, etc.

 

[Atccfi]

Sticky,
We've been shooting the entire ADIZ the past week and I had those same groundspeeds.... pretty sweet going one way....not the other. I was at 13.5. If it wasn't for all the coordination with tracon and all the BS that goes along with the job it really is a cool yet demanding job. Get to go and "loiter" in a lot of places almost noone else gets to go!! Can you say FRZ 1500 ft MSL all day....