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"For over 30 years

we've been arranging free flights so children and adults
can have access to the far-from-home doctors that can save their lives."

2012 Healthcare for Heroes award winner

2012 Healthcare Champions award winner

Weekly Update August 23, 2013

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Angel Flight Southeast/Conine Clubhouse Golf Classic

Monday August 26, 2013 from 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM EDT

Please join us at the beautiful Madison Green Golf Club in West Palm Beach for a fundraiser to benefit Angel Flight Southeast and the Conine Clubhouse for children at Joe DiMaggio Hospital! Includes Green fee, golf cart, goody bag, hole-in-one prizes, closet to the pin & longest drive holes, breakfast & dinner.

Madison Green Golf Club

Granny Nannies- Palm Coast Office

Tuesday September 17, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT

Granny NANNIES is a quality in home health care nursing agency that serves all areas in & around Palm Coast, Florida (FL). Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) and Home Health Aides (HHA) and have chosen Mercy Flight Southeast as their charity of the month

Palm Coast Office

Pilot orientation Lunch 'n' Learn (Third Wednesday) Sept 18, 12pm

Wednesday September 18, 2013 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT

Primarily for our more recently joined pilots, this session is to help with some helpful tips on best practices for medical-related volunteer flying. Experienced pilots should join as well, to help both the newer pilots and our organization with tips on how we can make our passengers' experience the best one possible.

Teleconference (712) 432-0080 949489#

Downtown Concert Series featuring Eddie Money

Saturday September 21, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT

Mercy Flight Southeast will be attending this venue September 21st. We have two special VIP passes and will be raffling off an autographed Brett Michaels electric guitar!

Downtown Orlando - Orange Ave. & Livingston Street

Florida Institute of Technology - AVIATION DAY 2013

Saturday October 12, 2013 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

For more information on our monthly meetings, call the office at

(352) 326-0761

Garcia girls Andrea, mom, pilot Marc Miller, dad and Maria

West Palm Tournament only 3 days away!

Golfers & Gamblers!

It's your last chance to be part of a great day and play in West Palm Beach or just get some raffle tickets and enjoy from your armchair!

Where: Madison Green Golf Club

Who: Mike Brady, GM of the Madison Green Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fl and Jeff Conine of the Florida Marlins

When: August 26th 8:30am

Come shoot a round with a sports celebrity. The proceeds are being split to help Angel Flight Southeast and the Conine Clubhouse.

Tickets are available here

Ball drop courtesy of Ocean Helicopters in North Palm County Airport (F45)

Thank you!

Take a chance! Even if you can't attend, you can still enter the raffle.

Some related press, thanks to our PR guru Nanci Schwartz, Pilot Mark Nowicki and passenger Mike Sullivan.

Jupiter, Florida pilot Mark Nowicki is always looking for a reason to fly so his role as an Angel Flight Southeast volunteer pilot is perfect for him. "You should fly for a good reason," says Nowicki. In this photo, he is pictured with former Angel Flight passenger Louis Notarangelo who he flew from Clearwater to West Palm Beach.

Full press release here

Pilot spotlight

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

David Trilling x2

Richard Wachstein

Dave Rivero

Barbara Mathews

Mark Nowicki

Joe DeMarco

Sam Samaha x2

Terry Moore

Dr. Ken Kushner

Attilio DiMarco

Dave Walker

Richard Ramey

40 mission legs were coordinated 8/17/2013 - 8/23/2013

Nice note:

"Dear Kathy , I most express my total gratitude to your organization , especially to Steve (wonderful human being) , and it is true that in Shands hospital (Gainesville) they treat me as usual with professionalism. I was able to regain my health back , is also true that due to the dedication and humanitarianism of Angel Flight I would not be able to survive, my total gratitude to all of you , God bless you all ."

Antonio G Milanes

Both legs flown by Pilot Charles "Chip" Vercelli Jr. - thanks Chip!

Little Tiberius is traveling to Miami Children's Hospital for treatment of

B-cell lymphoma from Key West.

Tiberius - Here we go! (before treatment)

Tiberius, mom Joell and pilot Sam Samaha

Tiberius in Sam's Cessna182

Pilot Dave Rivero with passenger Carol. Carole is traveling to the Tampa Pain Clinic for treatment of her condition.

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.

Thank to all who voted so far!

We racked up the votes this week but need more! Please forward to your friends.

10 seconds can get us $10,000! We've done it before, please help!

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Lightspeed Aviation Foundation - Angel Flight Southeast 2013

AFIDS 2.0 is coming!

Our online flight coordination software is getting a big upgrade very soon!

We are looking for a few pilots to help with the testing. Volunteers?

Pilot user group
We need a user group of members who would be willing to try a few defined tasks in the new system. This group should include different types of members, for example:
● Active pilots who search for missions and request them
○ Pilots with different kinds of airplanes, or who like different kinds of missions
● Earth angels
● Flight coordinators, hotline representatives

A group of 6-12 members should be sufficient for the user group.
We will provide these members with a list of tasks to complete and some simple instructions on how to complete them, as well as a way to provide us with feedback

Email Steve if you're interested. steve.purello@mercymail.org

AFIDS 2.0

Question, comments or concerns?
Contact us at (352) 326-0761
or email us at info@mercymail.org

Our organization entirely relies on donations to keep going. More than ever, we could use your help. Please consider making a donation today. Even better, make a recurring donation to help all year long.