SUBSEQUENT TRIP REQUEST: 11th & 12th Angel Flights.

Diagnosed with a brain tumour in 1996, thirteen year old Zachary has undergone surgery for a shunt and radiotherapy. The brain tumour has resulted in blindness. He finds the 10 hour journey difficult. This visit is for dental surgery at SCH.

Read about a previous mission for Zachary (M605)

Peter Gibson - Pilot

Robyn McBride - Earth Angel
(Robyn's 30th mission)

Angel flight 1 by Peter Gibson
This is Peter's 17th mission
Previous mission for Peter - M622 AF1.

Comment by Peter
"A bit of a trickey trip all round really - quite bad weather due to a trough moving north accross Victoria and New South Wales and so had to stop at Merrimbula to take on fuel for IFR reserves. Just got in there on the cloud base minima - then even worse at Mallacoota. Had actually begun a missed approach when I caught a quick glimpse of the runway and managed to get in on a circling approach. Very heavy rain and a very boggy runway. Got very wet and thought the aeroplane was sinking and dissappering into the sandy gravel runway!

Patient did not arrive, no mobile service and a u/s public phone - so was trying to climb to the highest point, still getting very wet when Peter rang me back to ask if I had called him. After numerous mobile drop outs, Peter Sorted it all out and the passengers duely arrived. Did a great soft field take-off and we were on our way, almost instantly in cloud and very bumpily up to 9000 feet, then bumped around there until we flew right out of the trough and into visual conditions just before Wollongong - then it got really bumpy(!) all the way to Bankstown - but at least we could see something.

It was great to catch up with Zac and Carol again. Zac seems to be progressing well and is a chirpy and very helpful boy. The trip was pretty hard going - but I have to admit I really enjoyed it all and it was great flying experience."

Mick Toller - Pilot

Debra Morgan - Earth Angel
(Debra's 16th mission)

Angel flight 2 by Mick Toller
This is Mick's 6th mission
Previous mission for Mick - M604 AF2.

Comment by Mick
"Smooth operation in cloudless skies"