flying for money

On Sep 26, 7:46 am, Newps wrote:
A friend of mine has a Huey that has a Forest Service contract. He just
got released from the fires in Montana last week. He gets $5000 per day
to make the helicopter available and he gets $1900 per flying hour in
addition to the $5K. The duty day is 14 hours of which you may fly 8
hours. He always flew within 5 minuites of 8 hours. Every 12 days they
make you take 2 days off. He had his Huey up on the fire for 90 days.
Out of that money you have to pay all your expenses. The Forest Service
does pick up the insurance cost.

Probably because they have to self-insure it. There probably are not a
lot of insurance companies excited about insuring planes flying *into*
fires.

-Robert

Sounds about right. And the Huey isn't one of the more expensive
machines. You should see what the guys in the Sky Crane are raking in.
Of course it costs a hell of a lot more to run that machine too.



Allen wrote:

"Newps" wrote in message
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He calls the Forest Service when he is ready, that's how it works. He
isn't interested in working all year and all over the country. I think
this year he made himself available around June 1st. Not much goes on
until about the second week of July.


By your numbers, if I figure correctly, he brings in about $1.6 million in
that 90 day period?

Matt Barrow wrote:
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:
"Newps" wrote in message
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A friend of mine has a Huey that has a Forest Service contract. He
just got released from the fires in Montana last week. He gets
$5000 per day to make the helicopter available and he gets $1900
per flying hour in addition to the $5K. The duty day is 14 hours
of which you may fly 8 hours. He always flew within 5 minuites of
8 hours. Every 12 days they make you take 2 days off. He had his
Huey up on the fire for 90 days. Out of that money you have to pay
all your expenses. The Forest Service does pick up the insurance
cost.
What does operating a Huey cost per hour?

Bell trains in them with I assume and instructor for $995/hour.

http://www.bellhelicopter.com/en/tra...older=header_8

That piece specifies: "Requires customer's aircraft", so I take it
that means the $995 is just the cost of the Bell school and the
instructor, not the actual hourly direct and indirect costs.

Opps I missed that.