Meanwhile the organizer is paying or trying to subsidize the ground crew that is helping YOU out, so YOU can have fun, and YOU can go flying. There is a higher percentage of effort on their part for the average crewless pilot.. While the pilot brought a crew or possibly paying (Ok im going to be sexist here) wife tax which could range between .5%-300% of your personal contest budget. Bringing a crew and putting them in a hotel plus food is going to run you a lot higher rate than what was recommended. Yes there are pilot pools for land-outs but sometimes that doesn't work out as well. I have in the past sent employees on retrieves, meanwhile I am paying them, and getting you out of a field.

BB has a point, there are people that would gladly pay $50/day or some amount to have a helping hand, like he described. I think that should be the condition, not just hey we are going to charge you guys more... But even $5/day to get a High School student out there pushing you off the runway because you cannot fly to Private Pilot Standards (Mikes recommendation of a spot landing fee on single runway airports), not to mention everything else, tow gear, wing-runner... Look at it as a pool to hire a few kids to be there for you.

Unfortunately not everyone wants to volunteer two weeks of their time to watch you fly...IF they did then wouldn't everyone have a crew with them?

I have been crewless, brought crew, and organizer...