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Special thanks to The Church of the Redeemer for adopting ALL missions to the Blind Veteran's Rehabiliation Center in Palm Beach!
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Upcoming Events
Mercy Flight Southeast Q2 Board meeting July 14
Saturday July 14, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
Our Q2 board meeting in Leesburg, held at our regional headquarters.
Leesburg Regional Headquarters
Mercy Flight Southeast 3-way raffle!
Friday August 31, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM EDT
Mercy Flight Southeast is holding a special raffle to help raise money for our life-saving mission of coordinating free air transportation for children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs. The funds make sure the "lights stay on" to answer phone calls 24 hours, 7 days per week; even when calls come in the middle of the night!
Mercy Flight Southeast Headquarters
Angel Flight Bahamas Fly-In & Dinner Cruise October 6 & 7, 2012
Saturday October 6, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Angel Flight Fundraiser & Dinner Cruise Two nights Freeport Grand Bahama Buy your tickets with your credit card using our PayPal account
Freeport, Bahamas
Angel Flight Annual Leesburg Golf Tournament & Pairing Party November 11, 12, 2012
Sunday November 11, 2012 at 7:30 PM EST -to- Monday November 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM EST
Join us at Beautiful Arlington Ridge Golf Club for a a dinner and "pairing party" the evening of Sunday November 11, then on Monday, November 12 (Veteran's Day) a great round of golf including a putting contest, full breakfast, lunch and more! Register soon for early-bird discounts. It's easy to pay with your credit card using PayPal
Arlington Hills Golf Club Leesburg, Florida
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Pilot tele-forum
For feedback, suggestions
and questions answered regarding missions
First Tuesday every month at 7pm
Next forum is July 3rd
(712) 432-0080
949489# via join.me
These have been really well-received! Please send future agenda items to steve.purello@mercymail.org
Wings
Region-wide Wing meeting for Wing Leaders and interested parties:
2nd Tuesday of every month 7pm (712) 432-0080
Next one June 12
949489# via join.me
This will be for our wings to
be able to share best practices and learn how we can do a better job with local outreach and fundraising in our communities.
For more information on our monthly meetings, call the office at
(352) 326-0761
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Ed McGarvey - in the news!
Ed is one of our very dedicated mission coordinators, who was recently interviewed for the local paper. Thanks Ed!
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Vote for us! 20 seconds could equal $10,000!
This year we are listed as our National affiliation "Air Charity Network"
Your Vote Counts! Click to Vote. | |
FATA "Beyond the Runway"
Angel Flight Southeast was invited to speak at a special event for the Florida Aviation Trade Association. Heart-transplant patient Bill Brooks was able to tell his story of the travels with our organization. The main topic was how general aviation impacts the community.
Did you know that 70% of airline flights in the US only use 30 airports?
Did you know that more than 100 airports have been abandoned by US carriers?
Angel Flight pilots however, make use of over 5,000 airports that are infinitely more convenient for its passengers.
Angel Flight pilot Jeff Kohlman speaking at
FATA: Beyond the Runway
FATA President Sandy Showalter, Steve and heart-transplant passenger Bill Brooks
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Florida fuel & FBO discounts now published
Let's face it. Fuel has been making the cost of flying "sky-high" these days! Your team at HQ has been working hard to get discounts at the places you fly into, and publish them for frugal flight planning. Enjoy!
To see our survey, click here
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Special thanks to David Silseth, and Gwen for getting this done! More states coming soon.
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| $1.00 per gallon rebate on missions! |
Angel Flight Southeast is proud to work with Phillips 66 to offer a great benefit to our pilots; a $1 rebate AFTER their Angel Flight discount at Phillips FBOs! More....
Phillips 66® Aviation is committed to supporting pilots that volunteer their time and aircraft to charities that provide free air transportation to patients whose financial resources would not otherwise enable them to receive medical treatment or diagnosis, or who may live in rural areas without access to commercial airlines. These charities also provide a vital mode of transportation for organs, blood and for patients awaiting organ transplants. As a proud supporter of pilots that fly compassion flights organized by eligible charitable organizations, we provide a $1-per-gallon avgas rebate to help support the pilots who unselfishly donate their time and aircraft so that children and adults may access life saving medical care free of charge.
Get more information on our site hereApply for a Phillips 66 card here | |
Pilot spotlight
These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions
Dr. Tayapongsak
Art Elliott
Jim Lambert
Attilio DiMarco
David Walker x3
Steve High x2
Dr. Sidhwa
Richard Ramey
Paul Cellecz
Bernie Long
David Taisch
Mark Nowicki
John Posson
66 mission legs were coordinated 6/9 - 6/15
This is photo of patient Liza (right) and her mother Melissa following a trip home to Huntsville AL from MD Anderson in Houston.
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Marc Miller's mission weather this week to Naples
Marc Miller mission with Fred KVDF to KAPF
Note from the editor to our pilots: Please take more photos so I can put them up here!
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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| 6 Hours of free training! | |
Jim Hendricks of Naples Flight Simulator Center has a very special offer for Angel Flight pilots:
LIMTED TO ONE ANGEL FLIGHT PILOT PER MONTH
Jim would like to offer 6 hours of dual instruction in either a simulator or ground school
Use those hours for your next IPC, BFR, towards a new rating, or any other skills training you'd like; no strings attached.
Thanks very much to Jim for this very generous offer!
To qualify, we'll be doing a drawing of any pilot who has volunteered for a mission in the month of June. The drawing will take place July 5, 2012 and be announced in the weekly update.
This is a brand-new program, and based upon feedback we receive, we may be expanding it. Please let us know what you think.
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| Try AeroCapital | |
We have a very special offer to help Angel Flight Southeast do some creative fundraising and save our pilot/aircraft owners some of the expense of flying. Johnny Pineyro, one of our board members, has participated and is saving over $600 per month as a result of this partnership with Aero Capital.
(This link makes the flyer full-size)
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A Tuesday in June or July at 12:00 at the Newnan Country Club Newnan, GA (Speaker needed)
June 15 Work-at-home Children and Families Awards 2012. Take this opportunity to gather reviews from our clients, volunteers and donors. Our reviews will be visible to over 2 million donors on GreatNonprofits.org, and syndicated to GuideStar, CharityNavigator, GlobalGiving, and JustGive.The Alliance for Children and Families has also partnered with us for the awards.
The awards will identify top-rated nonprofits working to support children and families. If our nonprofit has at least 10 positive reviews (4 or 5 stars) by June 30, 2012, you will receive exposure to potential donors and supporters via the GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Children and Families Nonprofits List. (Award application writer needed)
Sep 8 - Jacksonville, FL. Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (CRG). Wings 'n' Wheels 2012 (Booth help)
Any Wednesday at 7am in August Zephyrhills Rotary First United Methodist Church. Breakfast included (Speaker needed)
Nov 9 - 11 - Stuart Air Show, FL. Witham Field (KSUA). Stuart Air Show. Nov.9-11 (Booth help)
Oct 20 - Dallas (Atlanta), GA. Paulding Northwest Atlanta (PUJ) (Booth help, have one, need another!)
Nov 11, 12 - Leesburg, FL. Arlington Ridge Golf Course. (We have 8-12 so far, but need about 30!)
If you can help with any of these events, please email to info@mercymail.org, or call (352) 326-0761 x1500 (have nine, need more!)
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| We need some assistance! | |
The summer months tend to be especially lean for fundraising, and we are hard at work trying to find creative ways to raise much needed funds in this environment.
Here are some ways you can help, if you can't write a check yourself:
- Do you know any Foundations you can recommend to us?
- Do you know anyone who would be willing to put our org in their will?
- Do you work for a company that does planned giving, such as payroll deductions?
- Want to give monthly automatically? We can handle that!
- Want to donate a car, boat or airplane? We can handle that too!
Any leads are greatly appreciated! Please call the office at (352) 326-0761 x1500 | |
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