INITIAL TRIP REQUEST

Twelve months ago, sixty-three year old Barry from Robinvale underwent surgery to remove a bladder tumour.

This Angel Flight was for a review at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Barrie Aarons - Pilot

Nicholas Barr - Earth Angel
(Nicholas' 2nd Angel flight)

Angel flight 1 by Barrie Aarons
This is Barrie's 26th Angel flight

Comment by Barrie

"Today's flights went well despite the horrible weather; I'm pleased we decided not to go to Robinvale as we wouldn't have got in. Out of the 4.4 hours of flight about 4.2 hours were in IFR conditions. On the way to MIA we had to divert around a large storm which was associated with moderately severe turbulence. Mildura had low cloud and rain and Moorabbin was closed to VFR and an instrument approach was necessary.

Tyana and Barry

Tyana seemed to enjoy the bumps and even had a snooze for about half an hour. Irene Pendelbury hadn't flown before but said she enjoyed the flight.

On the way home to Hamilton we actually flew through a cloud containing snow despite an outside temperature of +2 degrees. As we were about to commence our decent into HML soon anyway, I started a bit earlier and the snow melted fairly quickly.

Tyana and her mum Tara

Hamilton and Moorabbin have each had around 10mm rain since 9.00am today but MIA only 2.4mm since 9.00am - it must have cleared up after we were there."

This mission was flown in conjunction with mission 2438.

Angel flight 2 by John Ballantyne
This is John's 26th Angel flight

John Ballantyne - Pilot

Sue Lawrance - Earth Angel
(Sue's 8th Angel flight)