* * * * * Air Florida had a contract with a casino in Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island, in the Bahamas, to deliver nightly full-loads of gamblers from Fort Lauderdale. Freeport, Bahamas: gamblers’ paradise (pair-a-dice?). When assigned to this detail, I’d usually fly four legs round the state first – ending up at Miami – then fly the six-minute trip empty from Miami to Fort Lauderdale. Since the leg was so short, we never carried passengers – it was always a ferry flight. We’d arrive at Fort Lauderdale usually by 6:P.M., whereby the company was required to provide the pilots with “dinner”; consisting of a cardboard box containing a stale ham and cheese sandwich, an apple, and ice ...