I’m back, it was a busy week. I got a call on Tuesday from a company that needed a pilot to fly a Falcon 200 that they just purchased to Barbados and around the Caribbean.
The guy said all I had to do was just show up, they had qualified pilots, just needed someone with a type rating.
I left Denver at 9:00PM and arrived Fort Lauderdale at 7:30 am in Wed. the 10th. I had been awake for 24 hours at that point. I got a ride to FXE where the plane was waiting. I was told it was pre flighted, and ready to go. Unfortunately there was no flight plan, and the could not figure out how the file sn APIS. Gary came to the rescue, did the APIS and we went to the plane.
The batterys were close to dead, I got the API going, spent an hour cleaning the plane. Breifed my crew started engines, taxied out, and noticed we had 0 02. Taxied back to the ramp, and spent the next hour getting oxygen.
Needless to say we were running late and I was tired.
The flight to Barbados was uneventful, but the owners were not happy when we arrived. Apperantly nobody bothered to call them. The tail number was blocked so there was no way to track us. They thought we had crashed.
I wasn’t in the mood the discuss it with them.
We made a short hop over to snt Vincent for a “quick visit” that lasted into the night. It was a 4000′ runway with almost no lighting. It was one way in, one way out and that resulted in a 8 knot tail wind on takeoff. While the plane did great, I was a little nervous.
