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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
17th Annual Mercy Flight Southeast Pilot Awards, Pairing Party & Golf Tournament
Sunday November 10, 2013 at 5:00 PM EST -to- Monday November 11, 2013 at 3:00 PM EST
Join us for the Pilot Awards dinner & "pairing party" at Arlington Ridge Golf Club the evening of Sunday November 10. Then on Monday, November 11 (Veteran's Day) a great round of golf at Arlington Ridge Golf Club including 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
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For more information on our monthly meetings, call the office at
(352) 326-0761
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Pilot spotlight
These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions. Thank you!!
Lee Sewell
Sam Samaha
Charles George x4
Mark Spencer x2
Stan Shaw
Dr. David Mauritson
John Hanselman
Ed Parker x2
Patrick Clyne x2
Mike Alger
Paul Cellez
Jack Alexander
Mark Snead
Ashish Naran
64 mission legs were coordinated 8/24/2013 to 8/30/2013
David Trilling x3
Terry Moore x2
David Horsford
David Taisch x2
Ed Golly
Jack Schuler x2
Dr. Dinshaw Sidhwa
Harvey Moore x2
Dr. Keith Kilgallen x2
Matthew Taylor
John Hanselman
Patrick Livezey
Paul Cellecz
David Walker x2
Jerry Trachtman
50 mission legs were coordinated 8/31/2013 to 9/6/2013
Ed Parker
Rick Wachstein
David Walker x2
Mark Nowicki
Paul Hollowell x2
Rev. Kevin Mahoney x2
Sam Samaha
Dr. Keith Kilgallen
Terry Moore
50 mission legs were coordinated 9/7/2013 to 9/13/2013
"General" Tiberius giving thumbs up, while going for his last scheduled "BIG" treatment in Miami Children's Hospital.- Pilot F. (Sam) Samaha
Special thanks to Paul De Poo, the owner of
Island City Flying Service, the FBO in Key West for his generous support!
Pilot Charles George and Alan R coming home from Ohio State University
Scott is traveling to Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL for treatment of AML leukemia. Scott is in front of Pilot Michael Alger's airplane.
Hi Kathy.- Well, no one was around at Tampa Exec to snap our picture, so I had to settle for a 'selfie' with our New Yawker(da Bronx!) passenger.
Good flight. Talk to you soon.- Mike
Little Inde is traveling from GA to MD Anderson for treatment of a brain tumor. 
Inde with Pilot Lee Sewell and AFSC leg 2 Pilot Dennis Pennington. 
Pilot and board member Neil Glazer flying Jensyn home to Destin, FL from St. Pete. 
Flight home for Carole from Tampa to Marathon. Carole travels to the Tampa Pain Clinic for treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSD)
Thank You letter from James Hemphill, double-lung transplant patient
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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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| 24/7 Phone system upgrades | |
Just like in our airplanes, having equipment redundancy of critical components to safely navigate and keep our airplanes running is one of the most important tools we have as pilots. For any piece of equipment that we have on our airplane that is critical, it's a good idea to have another one in case it fails.
The same is true for our phone system. These phones have to be answered 24 hours per day including holidays to ensure that all passengers have our service available to them. We've been making some upgrades in that system so even if our entire system goes down our answering service will receive the calls, even in the middle of the night. We have a few more bugs to work out so please be patient with us. Some calls that should stay in the office are being treated as emergency, and going directly to the answering service.
To avoid having your call routed to the answering service during business hours, please use our main incoming line: (352) 326-0761.
Thanks!
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| Phillips 66 at Leesburg | |
Our home field (KLEE) at Care Traffic Control now has Phillips 66 at the local FBO, Sunair. Take advantage of the per gallon discount offered by Sunair for Angel Flight Southeast missions AND take advantage of an additional $1.00 rebate when paying with your Phillips 66 card.
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.
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| 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!
 | | Lightspeed Aviation Foundation - Angel Flight Southeast 2013 |
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| 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
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| Our deepest sympathy | |
One of our wonderful passengers
Charlsie Moore passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, at home with his wife of 49 years by his side.He served 20 years with the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a master sergeant. After retirement he had a distinguished civil service career for 17 years in the Aircraft Fuels Systems. Charlsie served many tour of duties which included assignments to Greece, Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Spain, and numerous assignments in the states. While in the Air Force, he received many accolades.A visitation was held on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, from 4 to 6 p.m., at Emerald Coast Funeral Home, 113 Racetrack Road NW, Fort Walton Beach, Fla. A celebration of life was held at 9:30 a.m., on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, at Abundant Life Church, 233 N. Hill Ave., Fort Walton Beach, Fla., with home pastor, Michael Thorne and James Pitts officiating. Family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment f ollowed at 2 p.m., at Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Fla. In lieu of flowers, please donate to Angel Flight Southeast, In memory of Charlsie Moore, 8864 Airport Blvd, Leesburg, FL 34788.Arrangements are entrusted to Emerald Coast Funeral Home. Expressions of love and sympathy may be viewed online at www.emeraldcoastfuneralhome.com. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nwfdailynews/obituary.aspx?n=Charlsie-Moore&pid=166799508#fbLoggedOut
Charlsie Moore's son, Nelda, Charlsie and pilot Marc Miller
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| Pilot Awards Gala & 17th annual Golf tourney coming soon! | |
Orlando Sentinel September 10th
Thanks to Nanci Schwartz for the PR ! | |
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