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For over 29 years, we've been coordinating free air transportation for
children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs

Weekly Update October 5, 2012

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Unity in the Community Fest

Saturday October 6, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM EDT

The Unity in the Community Fest is a one-day family extravaganza. Central Florida is rich in cultural diversity. The purpose of this event is to celebrate community unity and raise awareness of the diversity of the various cultures in Central Florida area. There will be entertainment, various exhibitors & vendors, and food vendors.

Clermont's Waterfront Park

Angel Flight Bahamas Fly-In & Dinner Cruise October 6 & 7, 2012

Postponed until next year due to lack of participation

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

3rd Annual Case Management Symposium

Friday October 12, 2012 at 4:30 PM EDT -to- Saturday October 13, 2012 at 5:00 PM EDT

The 3rd Annual Case Management Symposium sponsored by the Leesburg Regional Medical Center Foundation is an educational program consisting of nationally-recognized speakers for case managers from all over Central Florida.

Mission Inn Resort & Club, Howey-in-the-Hills

Florida Institute of Technology - AVIATION DAY 2012

Saturday October 20, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT

Emil Buehler Center for Aviation Training & Research Melbourne International Airport www.FITAviationDay.com World War II WACO Biplane rides Discuss aviation history with the Tuskegee Airmen Kids Area, Food vendors and plenty more!

Melbourne International Airport

Salute America 2012 Airshow Dallas, GA

Saturday October 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM EDT

Paulding Northwest Atlanta (PUJ) - SALUTE AMERICA 2012 will be the first Air Show ever held at the Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport in Dallas, Georgia! Gates will open to an atmosphere of family, fun and flying! SALUTE AMERICA 2012 will be a historical celebration of aviation history and heritage for people of all ages!

Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport

Pilots

Pilot tele-forum

For feedback, suggestions

and questions answered regarding missions

Tuesday November 20

6pm

(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 October 9

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

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.

Congratulations to our Pilot Awards Nominees!

Our pilot awards nominating committee made the final choices for the nominees of each pilot category region, in preparation for our pilot awards gala on November 11th.

We are pleased ro announce and recognize the following pilots for their outstanding service (names in alphabetical order).

Nominees:

Pilot of the Year: North Florida
John Epley

Charles Gould

Mary Sittman

Pilot of the Year: Central Florida East
Steven High

James Jordan

David Walker

Pilot of the Year: Central Florida West
Harvey Moore

Bill Shivers

David Trilling

Pilot of the Year: South Florida

Moshe "Mookie" Bashiri

Mark Nowicki

David Rivero
Pilot of the Year: Southwest Florida

Jack Alexander

Greg Frost

Marc C. Miller

Pilot of the Year: Louisiana/Mississippi
Ernest Burdette

Bill McGehee

Pilot of the Year: Alabama
Bill Castlen

Delbert Hahn, MD

Mark Spencer

Pilot of the Year: Georgia
Charles E. George

Scott Sowers

Rodger Knox

Pilot of the Year: South Carolina
Jim Poston

Jack Schuler

Clayton Tapp Jr.

Pilot of the Year: Transplant missions
Will Bissett

Andy Hofheimer

Peter G. Roode, MD

Pilot of the Year: Above-and-beyond
Alan Hoffberg

John D. Moorehouse, MD

Bill Shivers

Pilot of the Year: Rookie

Eric Kline

Marc C. Miller

David Rivero

Congratulations and thank you!!

Needed: Pilot Awards sponsors

Aviation-related or non-aviation businesses:

Please help us make our volunteer pilots feel special when we recognize them at our Pilot Awards Gala on November 11th at Mission Inn, Howey-in-the-Hills, FL. We still have sponsorships available for:

Dinner

Cocktail hour

Pilot door prizes and incentives

For more information, go to www.angelflightse.org, and click "events"

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Health Care Champions Award!

Health Care Champions Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Angel Flight Southeast Pilot Accepts Health Care Champions Award

LEESBURG, FL- Steve Purello, CEO & Volunteer pilot for Angel Flight Southeast (AFSE), was selected as the winner of the 2012 Health Care Champions Award by Seacoast National Bank and SCRIPPS Treasure Coast Newspapers.

Health Care Champions recognize individuals, institutions and programs that make an extraordinary impact in the Treasure Coast Florida healthcare community. AFSE is a non-profit comprised of volunteer pilots who fly patients to distant medical facilities to receive treatment. The patients fly for free because the pilots personally pay for all costs from fuel to airport fees.

More than 100 nominees were narrowed down to14. Bill Brooks, a heart transplant patient nominated Purello because of the free flights provided by AFSE.

"I am pleased to accept this award on behalf of Angel Flight Southeast. This award represents the compassion and care we experience as pilots when we're flying children & adults to the doctors that can save their lives," said Purello, a 15-year volunteer pilot.

Mary Webb, a retired pilot, founded Angel Flight Southeast in the early 1980's. . Today, AFSE proudly serves the state of Florida and is a member of the Air Charity Network, an association of charitable aviation organizations comprised of over 7,000 pilots.

For more information log on to http://www.angelflightse.org/.

Nominator and heart transplant recipient

Bill Brooks with Steve Purello

Bill Brooks & Steve Purello

Pilot spotlight

These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions.

Mark Nowicki x2

David Taisch

David Walker x2

Don Roberts

Harvey Moore

Eric Kline x2

Stephen Weiss

Dr. Oxer

Pete Marshall

Ernest Burdette

Tony DeSantis

Lee Harris

Jack Alexander

Jack Locke

59 mission legs were coordinated 9/22 - 9/28

Rick Sorrell

Larry Miller

Don Roberts x2

John Thomas

Eric Kline

Steve High x2

Dave Croson

Trey Bentley

Jimmy Schramm x2

Mark Nowicki

Lee Harris

Dave Rivero

David Walker x2

Tom Costanzo

79 mission legs were coordinated 9/29 - 10/5

Rina and pilot Larry Miller
Rina Gould and pilot Larry Miller

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.

Volunteer opportunities:

Oct 20 - Melbourne, FL Florida Institute of Technology - AVIATION DAY 2012 9am-4pm (Booth help)

Nov 9 - 11 - Stuart Air Show, FL. Witham Field (KSUA). Stuart Air Show. Nov.9-11 (Thank you Greg Banfield! Have 3, need more)

Free training for generous (and lucky) Angel Flight pilots

6 Hours of free training!

Jim Hendricks of Naples Flight Simulator Center has a very special offer for Angel Flight pilots:

This will be limited to one 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.

September winner:

Charles Gould! Congratulations Charles!

We now have a PR agency (at no cost to us)- help us tell our story!

Hi Volunteer Pilot. As you have already been told Barton Gilanelli would like to promote the charitable flying organization you volunteer for. We have found reporters and editors are more likely to do a story about a "person" than an "organization." For this reason we would like to put you forward to the press and have you tell the story of the organization you fly for.

We will provide you with talking points and, if it would make you more comfortable, we could do some coaching with you. Once you have answered the questions below the rest is a piece of cake.

Remember, the story is about the charitable organization and your story introduces the reporter to the wonderful things that the organization does through volunteer pilots like you.

Pilot info for media outreach

Special little fundraiser

Thanks Noah!

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