Yesterday was very eventfull day! Wake up at 0400, catch taxi to Halim airport at 0500 and here we are in the departure hall bunch of guys from all around the world - actually six of us, all eager to get on board of Grand Caravan and get going with selection process.
Firstly we went through the security and check in desk where not just our bags have been weighted but we were as well :)
Few steps accross the road and we are in Susi lounge where there are two sofas and few arm chairs just to fit ten passangers - enough to fill Caravan to its legal max.
Some ten minutes later minibus arrived and took us on to the apron - here they are, two Avantis P-180 and three C208 in Susi colours. One of the C208 is ready for boarding and two guys with huge umbrellas are helping as much as they can. Bags are already in cargo pod and I manged to squeeze myself in to the front pax row so pictures and video will be available later when I get home...
Our flight to Nusiwiru (Pangandaran) is actually diversion of flight to Calicap but three pax going to Calicap doesn't seems to be very bothered...
C208 is climbing like a home-sick angel and in no time we are cruising at 9500ft above most of the clouds. It does not take long time and terrain is raising and we are clearing number of peaks by no more than 2500 ft. Awesome I love it already!
Arriving to Nusiwiru, we can see hundreds of fisheries that were starting point for Susi to build here little empire...
Visual approach and landing on the hard runway was uneventful but amazing same time.
Before we could say bye to our crew and hi to ground personel, everyone was gone and we found ourself alone on deserted airfield - sorry airport ;)
Anyway we made our way through the terminal building and meet our driver who took us to SusiAir compound at Pangandaran.
What we expected to be few minutes ride proved to be nearly hour long trip through number of vilages - this is not possible to describe but I promise I will post the video later on...
Accomodation that has been prepared for us was much better than we could ever imagine (better than my $100 hotel in Jakarta) and after two hours of relax we have been split in to two groups and led by Filipus our coordinator, walked in to the exam room to started first test.
This was pretty basic CPL/IR and C208 knowledge base so it was quite anoying to find out that I have scored 83%
I still do not know what questions I got wrong but my final interview is tomorrow (today is day 2) so I guess I will have chance to ask...
By 1500 we were all ready to explore nearest area and targted Bamboo cafe 'n bar on the beach as recomended ;)
After first Bintang we had to taste the waves ;) Black sand slopes very slowly in to the sea so it is great place for surfing and body boarding...
After second Bintang (no, there wasn't third one) we decided that we are hungry again and slowly walked back to SusiAir compound for dinner.
What a day!
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