Re: Groups Best Practices
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:39 am
Thanks for the feedback everyone. After reading the replies, I've moved my money and airplanes into a group to use like a holding company. I've reduced the rental rates to be lower than the market to see if there's a way to encourage use. I also have a high "distance bonus" used as a "deposit" to keep the airplanes in the PE service area.
I think (in my case) it's pretty easy to make virtual dollars if I need to. I've spent the last few days over in the Middle East, flying a Dash 7 picking up large system-generated jobs, and amassed about $100K. It was all low value experience flights - stop and go on the runway, time acceleration and multi-hop flights. I tried to find an area that had low operations and stuck to system jobs so I would "rob" someone's network of jobs that had been constructed for "normal" flights.
FSE is tough to pin down because (thankfully) the structure is so wide open. Chilkoot Air is featured in this month's FSE magazine which is a great example of how the FSE infrastructure is used to build their own social flying network. I wonder if there's value for that in PE.
For now, my goal is going to be to get money from one part of the FSE system, buy airplanes that are commonly used on PE, then rent them with the idea to get usage and not cash. I'm even considering dropping the wet rate entirely so people are paying small virtual dollars per hour for a small plane.
I think (in my case) it's pretty easy to make virtual dollars if I need to. I've spent the last few days over in the Middle East, flying a Dash 7 picking up large system-generated jobs, and amassed about $100K. It was all low value experience flights - stop and go on the runway, time acceleration and multi-hop flights. I tried to find an area that had low operations and stuck to system jobs so I would "rob" someone's network of jobs that had been constructed for "normal" flights.
FSE is tough to pin down because (thankfully) the structure is so wide open. Chilkoot Air is featured in this month's FSE magazine which is a great example of how the FSE infrastructure is used to build their own social flying network. I wonder if there's value for that in PE.
For now, my goal is going to be to get money from one part of the FSE system, buy airplanes that are commonly used on PE, then rent them with the idea to get usage and not cash. I'm even considering dropping the wet rate entirely so people are paying small virtual dollars per hour for a small plane.