Mutt,
For obvivous reasons I can't give too many details concerning this flt here on the open forum, however, I can say my whole experience with that organization was a nightmare from the first day.
Talk about penny pinching hipocrytes.
I can tell you this: The previous day I wwas flying a very high level Family member RUH/JED. Flt was normal until gear retraction. Rt main gear lt stayed red. Recycled as per ck list. No Joy. I informed the VIP we would return to RUH. He wanted to continue to JED, gear down. I explained that would be OK except we didn't have the fuel.
End result, emergency landing at RUH. Try that with THIS guy on board. Never saw so much activity over nothing in my career.
Next day the decision was made to do the gear down ferry. I was told we could it nonstop. (normal flt with everything working was 6+ hours.) The people in charge had no conception of what would be required for a gear down ferry.
To make a long story short, the day of the flight, the FE wanted to unpin the gear and "try" to raise it.
When you were asked to plan the flight was probably right after I refused to do it "non-stop".
We ended up taking 9 crewmembers (guess what nationality) on this ferry flight.
No wonder I left this after my one year contract was up.
By the way, is Conky Joe related to the individual that managed to put "Surfin' USA" on the tape machine on the mineret (mosque) in JED? If so, I know him, but who are you. My e-mail is on my profile.