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Upcoming Events
January 28th
Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport
Challenge Air Event
Jan. 31 - Feb. 1
Mercy Flight Southeast Exhibit at NATCA - Communicating For Safety Conference
Atlanta, GA
February 4th
Texas Hold'em Tourney
Gator Harley
Leesburg, Fl
Sign up here
March 10th
Texas Hold'em Tournament
Orlando
Orlando Executive Airport (KORL)
March 27th- April1st
Sun n Fun
@ the PilotMall Shop
(Air conditioning!)
Lakeland Airport
March 31st
5pm registration
Texas Hold'em Tournament
(Sun n Fun)
April 7th
Trains, Planes & BBQ
Tavares, FL
April 20th
"On the runway" 5K Run
Orlando Executive Airport (KORL)
Showalter Flying Service
Register here
April 21st
Texas Hold'em Tournament
Tampa FL
Hard Rock Casino & Hotel
April 28th
Golf Tournament
Tampa/St. Pete
Venue TBD
Sign up here
November 12th
Golf Tournament
Leesburg, FL
Arlington Ridge Golf Club
Sign up here
Speakers
"EvANGEList" Monthly training every
3rd Thursday @ 7pm
(712) 432-0080 949489#
via join.me
Next training is
January 19
Pilots
Pilot tele-forum
For feedback, suggestions
and questions answered regarding missions
First Tuesday every month at 7pm
Next one Feb 7th
(712) 432-0080
949489# via join.me
WINGS
South Florida Wing
Last Wednesday 6:30pm every month
Next one 1/25
Executive Airport (KFXE)
West Palm Beach Wing
First Thursday 6:30pm (next one 2/2)
every month
Galaxy FBO
Galaxy FBO West Palm Beach International (KPBI)
Tampa/St. Pete Wing
Third Wednesday
6:30pm every month
(next one 1/18)
Location varies
Next meeting: Bellair Biltmore Golf Club
For more information on our monthly meetings, call the office at
(352) 326-0761
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| Angel Flight/Challenge Air | |
Training and practice sessions have begun for our fly-kids event in January, partnering with Challenge Air.
Civil Air Patrol volunteer Marshal training this morning
We've also met with ground, tower ops and Banyan to ensure that we have a smooth day of operations.
We are looking for pilots to take kids and their families on a 15-minute flight, exposing them to aviation and empowering them by hopefully taking the controls of the aircraft, even though they may have a disability that keeps them from having a normal life on the ground. I have done a number of these as a pilot, and just like doing Angel Flight missions, it is very rewarding!
Please let us know if you can volunteer. We will have a morning and an afternoon shift on Saturday January 28 at the Fort Lauderdale Executive airport. Sign up at www.challengeair.org. or give me a call at
(352) 326-0761 x1500 if you have any questions.
Sincerely, Steve Purello
Angel Flight Southeast
Update: We have 15 airplanes so far....
We are having a call on Tuesday January 24th at 7pm to go over procedures for this year's event in a advance. Mark your calendars please...
Conference Call Number: 605 715-4920
Conference Access Code: 990048
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| Pilot regulation change | |
Well-intended misinformation was provided to us last week regarding instrument currency. Apparently, there has been NO change to the regulations regarding instrument currency.
Apologies from the editor for not thoroughly investigating this news item before re-publishing it. Thanks to Ed Ungar and others for pointing it out right away.
More info from AOPA here
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Pilot spotlight
These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions. Jimmy Williamson Steve High X2 Mary Sittman Dr. Barasch Paul Coleman Jack Schuler Thomas Costanzo Ed Parker Jack Culley Brian Dekle Chris Moffatt Tony DeSantis X2 Paul Hollowell X2 49 mission legs were scheduled between 1/14/2012 and 1/20/2012 | |
Pilots: Please send your photos via your smart-phones to: info@mercymail.org. We'll get them posted on our social networks so we get some additional PR.
Thank you for all of your time and energy.
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Sun n Fun volunteers needed
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This is our biggest air show event of the year, and we
will be there for 5 days. We need people to man the booth
from 9am-5pm, and help with our Texas Hold'em Tournament
on Saturday, April 1st from 4pm until about 11pm.
If you can help, please sign up here.
For any of these positions, or to chair your own event please call the office at: (352) 326-0761
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UPDATE: We're almost full. We just need one or two more volunteers. Thanks everyone!
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| We need a helicopter! |
Where: Eagle Ridge Golf Club Summerfield, FL
When: Saturday, March 10th 1:30pm
Our partner, "Swing for the Cure" is holding a golf tournament to raise money for a number of charities including Angel Flight Southeast. The gentleman that normally does our helicopter ball drop is not available that day. If anyone can donate their time and helicopter, or knows someone who can fill in, we would appreciate it greatly! Other than the flight there, it takes about 15 minutes to accomplish.
If you can help, please contact Steve at (352) 326-0761 x1500
Update: We received a couple of leads, but nothing definite yet!
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