Five Days of Excitement
I fly a King Air 200 corporate, and there's no such thing as "typical" ... we flew very little in September, but October has been busy. This is a snapshot of my last five days, beginning Wednesday:
Weds.
0455 Show at RWI (Rocky Mount, NC)
0555 Depart for TEB to drop 4 pax
0800 - 1500 Off-duty in NY

Go downtown, be a tourist, lunch
with an old friend in the financial district
1530 Depart for MRH (Morehead City, NC)
1800 Off-duty, get local seafood dinner and hit the hotel
Thurs.
0745 Show at MRH for 0830 departure only to find our pax
there and ready to go by 0800. So we preflight quickly.
0800 Depart for INT (Winston-Salem, NC) w/ 5 pax.
0930 Off-duty, crew car to meet a friend, then lunch
1200 Call from pax, 1230 departure now 1415. CNN at FBO.
1415 Depart for MRH, drop five pax.
1530 Quick turn, reposition to TEB.
1730 Another quick turn, 4 pax back to RWI, box dinner.
1930 Another quick turn (would've been quicker if I didn't have
to drive my car across the ramp to find the line guy!), then
reposition to BDL. Go to hotel, slip in to coma.
Fri.
0730 Show at BDL for 0830 departure. Pax arrive early. What
else is new?
0815 Depart BDL for RWI. Do ILS apch ... today is IFR in fog,
low clouds, rain all over the east coast.
1100 Released home for three hours ... file more flight plans,
listen to Rush for a bit, grab lunch, then back to the airport.
1530 Depart RWI for FRG. Another ILS apch, another quick turn,
another crew meal for the trip home.
1800 Depart FRG for RWI. Another ILS apch in rain. As soon as
I get tug out of hangar, skies open, I get soaked. Finally go
home to dry out.
Sat.
OFF! However, I have to drive four hours across the state for a wedding.
Sun.
Breakfast and four hour drive back home in pouring rain.
1400 Grocery store to buy beer and peanuts for airplane, file and
get WX, head to airport.
1700 Depart early for RDU, arrive to find pax waiting, almost an
hour early. (Anyone else detecting a pattern here?)
1745 Depart for MRH. Early arrival means no ride for five pax.
Get courtesy van (five big guys and two pilots in a Caravan,
not fun ... at least I'm driving). Drop pax at hotel, then find
more seafood for dinner. Nobody takes American Express on
the beach, we discover, so dinner goes on personal credit
cards ... I hate when that happens.
2000 Arrive back at MRH for reposition back to RWI, just before
we walk to the a/c cell phone rings. Company VP says wait
20 minutes for me to get there, need to give you an envelope
to take back to home office. We wait, he shows, we go.
2030 Depart for RWI. Co. messenger waiting at hangar for the
envelope, put airplane away, home to sleep for a week.
So that's it ... pretty busy couple of days. Not exactly typical, but then what is?
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