High Cost of Sportplanes

Yes Richard,
you are correct they do in deed figure in their facility maint. etc into
what they charge for your time. But that is not a cost of you..it is a cost
of a place to have their airplanes. They could care aless if you stand
outside all day in a blizzard...they probably don't like for some of their
planes doing it all the time though And again...production is not
maintinance. The buildings are there to house tooling, warehouse parts and
such....not for the workers benefit.

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech



"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:41:43 -0400, "W P Dixon"
wrote:

:Well,
: Considering most production aircraft workers make from 10 to 15 bucks an
:hour I don't see how you come up with 45 an hour. That makes a difference
to
:doesn't it ?

So the production workers make 10-15 bucks an hour. How much is the
fully loaded price?

Go down to your local auto shop. The guys there are making a little
more, maybe 18 an hour. How much does the shop charge you for an hour
of their time? About $50-60.

I work at Boeing. I make a little more than the auto mechanic.
Boeing bills out my time at roughly 5 times what I see as the gross
number on my paycheck. Some of that is their share of my taxes, some
of it is benefits. But a LOT of it is the cost of the facility.

If you could employ an aircraft assembly guy and only spend 45 an hour
on him, I'd be amazed.