SUBSEQUENT TRIP REQUEST: 33rd and 34th flights.

Fourteen year old Michael from Khancoban is under going treatment for Leukaemia at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.

This Angel flight was for the continuation of his treatment in Melbourne.

Read about a previous mission for Michael (M2506)

Angel flight 1 by Per Carlsen
This is Per's 90th Angel flight

Per Carlsen - Pilot

Joanne Frankel - Earth Angel
(Joanne's 6th Angel flight)

David De Souza - Pilot

Shaun Taylor - Earth Angel
(Shaun's 2nd Angel flight)

Angel flight 2 by David De Souza
This is David's 13th Angel flight

Comment by David

"Weather: The weather forecast on 18 Jan indicated that the conditions would be marginal for the flight to be conducted under the IFR. I also had discussions with the BoM frcstr 18th pm and 19th am, but no improvement was expected. In view of the marignal conditions and lack of weather reports for YCRG, I anticipated that the flight may well have to divert to YMAY in any case. On 18 Jan I indicated to Linda Stokes that the prospects of landing at YCRG were slim. In terms of minimising delay to their onward routine, we decided that YMAY represented the best chance of landing and incurring minimal delay. The current weather forecasts issued 19 Jan remained poor, with actual and forecast weather conditions at or sometimes below the IFR minima. The landing at YMAY was acomplished in weather at the minima so we were pretty lucky to get in at the first attempt. The return trip was fortunately uneventful but flown in IMC throughout but for the last 5 minutes!!"