Gift Horse nil Mouth
Oct. 13th, 2005 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalI've just been offered a free ride to Australia in a 19-passenger aircraft. I'm not exactly certain if the offer is serious, but if it is, there are considerations to be examined.
1) It's with a pilot with a fresh liscence. For a trans-Pacific flight that makes me leery. OTOH it's likely he just got his liscence to fly a 19-passenger aircraft. Which means he'd have to have a few hundred hours in lighter aircraft before getting that rating. And unless he's a total idiot, he'll be flying with a more experienced co-pilot.
2) I don't know what kind of 19-passenger aircraft. It was described to me as "19 passengers + cargo". Now that covers everything from a Beechcraft turboprop with an 800-mile range (nessesitating a really long haul up through Alaska and down through Russia), to a rather lovely Bombadier Challenger bizjet with all the trimmings you could ask for, and a shorter hop from LA to Hawaii to Melbourne.
If the plane is the former, I suppose I'll be the only one in my family to go along. If it's the latter, I think Tracy would cheerfully kill me if I didn't beg a seat for her and Thomas. And maybe one for her mom as well.
3) I hope "free" doesn't mean "chip in for gas money". :)
Edit: It's a bizjet. And the guy still claims it's for free. All I'd have to do is find a cheap flight up to Boston to catch it.
This can't be for real...
1) It's with a pilot with a fresh liscence. For a trans-Pacific flight that makes me leery. OTOH it's likely he just got his liscence to fly a 19-passenger aircraft. Which means he'd have to have a few hundred hours in lighter aircraft before getting that rating. And unless he's a total idiot, he'll be flying with a more experienced co-pilot.
2) I don't know what kind of 19-passenger aircraft. It was described to me as "19 passengers + cargo". Now that covers everything from a Beechcraft turboprop with an 800-mile range (nessesitating a really long haul up through Alaska and down through Russia), to a rather lovely Bombadier Challenger bizjet with all the trimmings you could ask for, and a shorter hop from LA to Hawaii to Melbourne.
If the plane is the former, I suppose I'll be the only one in my family to go along. If it's the latter, I think Tracy would cheerfully kill me if I didn't beg a seat for her and Thomas. And maybe one for her mom as well.
3) I hope "free" doesn't mean "chip in for gas money". :)
Edit: It's a bizjet. And the guy still claims it's for free. All I'd have to do is find a cheap flight up to Boston to catch it.
This can't be for real...
