Recent Missions

• Wow! I need to update this site.

  4 Jan 2012

  WOW! I just noticed that I haven’t updated my stories here for almost a year!  Time really flies (pun intended). I knew I was behind, but perhaps only a few months.  Wow! My apologies, but rest assured I’m still doing Angel and Dog Rescue flights regularly. Thank you for visiting. I hope you find a [...]

• First Flight for PALS

  23 Feb 2011

  I’ve been flying missions for Angel Flight East for just about a year now. They are a great organization but being based in Philadelphia, a minority of their flights are in my range. They seem to have mostly Mid-Atlantic and slightly western routes. To get the opportunity to fly more “local” flights, I signed up [...]

• Combo Mission for ARF Beacon and Coonhound Rescue

  16 Feb 2011

  The the cooperation of everyone involved, this was another synergistic mission. First stop: Genesee NY [GVQ] to pick up three coonhound pups from Sally. Next, bop down to York PA [THV] and meet Kay who is bringing up three husky and two lab mix puppies from North Carolina. When I taxi by the ramp I [...]

• 6 Coonhound pups to Philly

  1 Jan 2011

  The date of this mission, 1/11/11 reminds me of ARF’s “Perfect 10” mission I did on 10/10/10. Maybe I ought to call this the “Perfect One’s” mission! This was another very straight forward mission put together by Jayne Schlegel, one of my favorite coordinators. The weather was fairly cooperative, except for the strong 50+ knot [...]

• Two Angel pax and three coonhound pups to Philly

  19 Oct 2010

  Well… this mission started out with five passengers – two passengers for Angel Flight East and Four pups for Coonhound Rescue. 12 hours before it happened I lost 3 pax. One of the Angel passengers became ill and couldn’t fly (awe.. bad news) and one of the pups got adopted (good news!). So, three cute, [...]