Flight report | Ft. Lauderdale - Bahamas on a C90B

[mau92]

I wanted to fly my favorite King Air, the smallest of the family. So I decided to take her out of the hangar for a spin to Bahamas on an Executive schedule.

As every flight, we started on the apron of Ft. Lauderdale Executive. The routing was done, the fuel was onboard and the doors were ready to be closed.

Today we'll be flying at FL180, the winds were really calm at that altitude, and we would get a fuel burn of 500lb/hr (approx) and a speed around 240ktas, so our flight time was a merely 50 minutes. If anything went wrong at our destination, we would head back to were we came from. So we took almost 1500lb FOB, 750lb each tank good for a 3hr cruise (well above our total flight time if anything happened), we should be arriving with 500lb on each tank.

 

 

 

 

 

After a short taxi to the active runway, we were ready for take off.

 

 

 

 

So, as planned, we moved the throttles forward to full rumble! Soon after we reached 110kts and we rotated the plane towards the clear Miami skies.

 

 

 

 

A slight turn to the right would take us to Ft. Lauderdale VOR. After reaching this point, the overwater leg would start.

 

 

 

 

We checked that everything was running ok, and off shore we go heading directly to Bimini.

 

 

 

 

Reaching Bimini, there was no need to go back. Passengers were enjoying the nice view of the Atlantic Ocean from above.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And so did I, the sun was setting behind us gave the panel some nice lighting. The outside view was pretty also ;)

 

 

 

 

But, it was time to go down again. So 45nm from destination we started the descent towards 2000ft. At this altitude we would intercept RWY14 ILS after performing a 14nm DME ARC. Winds were calm, so this runway was optimal!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And there's the runway, plenty of length for landing. This plane is pretty small and no long distances are required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After another short taxi we go the ramp to finish the flight. Our VIPs are carried away by cars and we just leave the plane dark for the return leg. As side note we burned less fuel than expected, we had 550lb of fuel onboard!

 

 

 

 

Hope you enoyed!