The mission descriptions from Angel Flight was:
SUBSEQUENT TRIP REQUEST: (5th and 6th Angel Flight)A 6 year old boy from Thargomindah has severe skin lesions to the head/face/shoulder/chest region. There is also questionable other disabilities.
Specialist appointments for the planning of corrective surgery have been arranged for this visit.
Flying conditions were smooth with nary a cloud to be seen anywhere as we got going at about 9:30 and climbed to our en-route altitude of 10,000 feet.
Broodie and his mum Sally quickly settled down, with Broodie snuggling up under a doona in the back seat. He would only emerge periodically during our three and a half hour trip to blink at me and then quickly cover himself again.
Sally an I had a little bit of a chat as the countryside passed below.
We arrived a little before 1 o'clock in the arvo and Broodie's dad was already waiting to take them into town.
They work on a different time frame in the country, as I found out when I called up for fuel: "I'll be there in a minute or two" was the comment of the
refueller. Some 35 minutes later I finally heard his truck approaching the aerodrome. We added 173 litres of AvGas to the tanks and I applied for my 10 cents/litre
discount that you get for flying an Angel Flight into Thargomindah.
The flight back was again mostly uneventful, just as things should be, and I arrived back at Archerfield just after 5 o'clock, having traded on a day in the office for something truly worthwhile.