Just curious, what would one consider a fair rate for instruction to a professional pilot in a PC12?

Depends a bit if you’re training or mentoring, but $800-1000/day is probably not beyond question. I used to do lots of TBM training, and a two day recurrent was $2500. Mentoring (sitting right seat while a pilot flew off the insurance-required minimum or simply wanted a second set of eyes) was $600/day, but both of those numbers are from 10 years ago.

At that rate, they’re going to expect you to have lots of time in type. I had several thousand hours of TBM time, and I know that most of the PC-12 instructors do as well.

Cannon wrote:Depends a bit if you’re training or mentoring, but $800-1000/day is probably not beyond question. I used to do lots of TBM training, and a two day recurrent was $2500. Mentoring (sitting right seat while a pilot flew off the insurance-required minimum or simply wanted a second set of eyes) was $600/day, but both of those numbers are from 10 years ago.

At that rate, they’re going to expect you to have lots of time in type. I had several thousand hours of TBM time, and I know that most of the PC-12 instructors do as well.

Thanks!

This would be transition training for a commercial pilot.

I got plenty of time in the PC12, more than a few thousand, northern medevac, POPA mentor pilot, was a 135 training capt too.

My gut said it would be about day rate, which I think is 800-1500 bucks?

This guy came from a friend, so I don’t need to get rich here, fair rate, but don’t want to be disrespectful to myself ether

I’m sure this is obvious, before you fly, make sure the insurance is in place. Specifically, making sure that you’re either an additional insured with a waiver of subrogation or a named insured (talk to his broker to decide which is best - I can’t remember). There are very real repercussions if there’s an incident/accident and this is not done properly.

This insurance company may want a copy of your training program (syllabus, powerpoints, etc) before adding you. I already had one so it wasn’t a big deal, but some companies wanted it, some didn’t care.

Cannon wrote:I’m sure this is obvious, before you fly, make sure the insurance is in place. Specifically, making sure that you’re either an additional insured with a waiver of subrogation or a named insured (talk to his broker to decide which is best - I can’t remember). There are very real repercussions if there’s an incident/accident and this is not done properly.

This insurance company may want a copy of your training program (syllabus, powerpoints, etc) before adding you. I already had one so it wasn’t a big deal, but some companies wanted it, some didn’t care.

Thanks for looking out

Be interesting if they asked for a syllabus