Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown; Training / Qualification
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Airport; Human Factors
In Governor's Harbor [airport]; there is an over 8;000 foot strip. There is no taxiway; no tower; and a major hill in the middle of the runway where neither side can see the opposite end. When operating there; each pilot must trust that the others are making calls both to taxi out but also for landing. Aircraft there also repeatedly take off with a tail wind so it is difficult to know which side is being used at any time. In our case; we were departing off of Runway 15 and we made three radio calls; one to back taxi; one to position for takeoff; and one for takeoff. While cresting the hill on the takeoff roll we discovered that a multi engine piston aircraft was pointed right at us. We were past V1 and we continued to rotate and takeoff as the other aircraft did a 180 and attempted to head back to the ramp at the end of the runway. I do not know if they were taking off with a tailwind or taxing to 15 but they made no radio call and obviously were not listening to UNICOM. The FBO also made a call to the aircraft telling them that the runway was active and they needed to clear. Our crew followed every procedure to make this a safe takeoff; unfortunately we cannot prevent others from disregarding the rules of safe operations.This was a pretty close call; especially if the aircraft was trying to takeoff with a tailwind. If we had been 20 seconds later it could have been catastrophic. The fact that it is uncontrolled; has no taxiway; and you cannot see either side from either end makes this a very dangerous airport to operate in especially when the locals do not follow proper communication procedures. We as our crew did absolutely nothing wrong; we had no reason to believe that an aircraft would be reckless enough to not communicate and taxi without concern for themselves or anyone else; we made proper radio calls and did everything we could.
Pilot reported a near miss during takeoff roll with another aircraft that was possibly departing from the opposite end of the runway at MYEM.