Shoestring Flyer wrote:If all pilot 'Home workers' started doing what the OP proposes to do there will be no tables for the rest of us dropping into an airfield cafe for a snack and occupying a table say for 45minutes will there?
I think this is a little bit of a 'slippery slope' fallacy.
The number of pilot home workers for whom it's practical to take enough of the day off to get to the airfield, preflight the aircraft, fly it somewhere, and then do the same thing in reverse is probably quite small.
To say nothing of the costs of doing it regularly.
Good luck to them - I'm sure the airfield cafes will sort things out if they start getting armies of laptop-wielding office escapees taking up space and not buying anything.
FWIW, when I fly to maintenance for the 50-hour, or something else that can be done quickly enough for me to there-and-back in a day, I take the laptop and camp out in the corner of the Shoreham cafe for a few hours. I'm lucky if I get about 3 hours work done in total, and having one screen instead of three makes a massive dent in my productivity to say nothing of the distractions around, especially at lunchtime. It wouldn't be even remotely realistic to do it often.