Chapter 5: Taking Delivery (Life after Paradise Acquired)

I didn’t really want to, but they kind of talked me into it. I was picked up at my own airfield, the runway being just recently finished. There was only one strip left to do, and that was the long taxiway from the west end of the apron, which was on the east end of the runway, running to the west end of the runway. The airfield was otherwise fully functioning at that point and would be done in just a couple of weeks.

The aircraft brokers arrived in a little Phenom 300e. That would have been one of my choices, but I had to scratch it off the list due to the lack of range. They took me back to Denver to get my Longitude. The instructor wanted me to fly back home by myself, with him in the plane, but he wasn’t doing anything short of evaluating. Kind of like he had done before, but with no prompting or anything similar at all. I was to pretend he wasn’t there, but he would be evaluating my every move.