It wasn't meant to be carisimic.
I don't often have to chase to the dictionary to look up a word, but you got me on "carisimic".<g>
You have to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
From "Maui Rules": Don't take goals too seriously; the unaimed arrow never misses.
Not my philosophy, to be sure, but it seemed consonant with your offering.
But back on topic: It appears that the flight from Tennessee was going to be a charter. I recall that Kiwi got involved in air transport, and a fallout company from that debacle owned a charter jet service with three aircraft.
It does not seem too difficult to check Tennessee airports for FBOs capable of handling a charter jet -- if someone has a set of Jeppesen's charts handy, perhaps? It is an entire state, to be sure, but Tennessee is not a mecca of high-ticket transportation. If the charter were arm's length, a flight plan would probably already have been filed, or at the least the pilot would know where he was going so that the appropriate plan could be filed readily. Lears and Gulfstreams do not make such trips on VFR (visual flight rules, which don't REQUIRE filed plans). Instead, they use IFR (wasn't that "I Follow Railroads"?).
If the charter were NOT an arm's length deal (i.e. a buddy picking Chalem up at a small strip unannounced) then WE would not likely know about the trip now.
So, probably somewhere out there is at least one pilot who knew he was going to fly someone to Florida from Tennessee, and that the passenger(s) never showed up. Knowing the end points of the trip would allow additional speculation, if nothing else.<g>
Such charters run $1,000 to $3,000 or more per hour, depending on the craft and the level of use (i.e. Beechjet, sort of low-end, for about $1,700 -- less than that and you are generally spinning propellers).
This is not a trivial expense, and not one that most people could justify. Also, such a charter could just as easily pop over to NJ to pick up Chalem there, so there appears to be some other reason for the ground trip as has been pointed out.
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