"Larry Fransson" wrote in message
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[...] If the company needs the pilot,
they ought to be paying the pilot. If they're skimping on their pilots
and taking whoever will work for free, what else are they skimping on?

All fair questions. I'm just questioning the automatic hostility that this
pilot has received in absentia.

I would guess that what's really going on is that the pilot is "riding
along for experience" and flying any empty legs that can be flown under
part 91.

Could very well be. Even more reason for folks to not judge her so harshly.

Pete