The mission description from Angel Flight was:
SUBSEQUENT TRIP REQUEST: (5th & 6th Angel Flights):Originally I was only supposed to bring Tracey to town and another pilot was due to bring her back the next day. But, as often happens, the weather did not play along, so only a day or two before the return flight was opened up again, for instrument rated pilots.A 28 year old lady from Roma has Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome. This is a disorder of the blood and kidneys.
This young lady is required to have weekly plasma exchange treatment in Brisbane until further notice.
Thus I flew to Roma and back on two successive days.
The weather forecast was for scattered cumulus clouds with tops up to 8,000'. The only thing incorrect was the height, as the tops were above 10,000'. But, with
little traffic about I got clearance to divert both left and right of track as required to weave through the clouds.
After a little under two hours I arrived a little late at Roma to find Tracey already waiting for me.
Having to only put a little overnight bag onboard, and with Tracey being familiar with small aircraft, we got going a few minutes later and headed toward Archerfield.
Conditions were the same as on the way out and we again found ourselves weaving through the clouds as we got closer to Oakey.
With the wind now behind us, and in a little under one and a half hours, and we landed on runway 04R at Archerfield.
My flight planning software allows me to automatically retrieve the weather for the planned flight and applies the encountered winds to flight plan. Once I get the weather
the first thing I usually check is how the winds affect the flight times. I was surprised to see that on this occasion the flight times were exactly the same
as for the day before. Suspecting a fault in the software I checked and double checked the downloaded weather, only to find that it too was just about the same
as it had been the day before.
I arrived at the airfield with some time to spare to make sure that I would not keep Tracey waiting today. However she decided to turn the tables on me, for I received a phone call from her telling me that due to equipment failure at the the hospital she would be delayed by an hour or so.
Having done the pre-flight, I called up the tower and asked them to push back my flight plan by an hour and invited myself up for a visit. So I spent the next hour in airconditioned comfort having a chat with the tower guys while getting an appreciation of what it's like from their side of the fence.
Tracey arrived as advertised and we blasted off, with a slightly different to usual departure. To fit us better into the traffic flow, Brisbane departure had asked whether we could do an initial northern departure instead of the usual westerly one.
Once in the air we were quickly cleared to track via Oakey to Roma and found that the weathermen had been right - the conditions were indeed a carbon copy of the day before. So we were once again zooming around the build-ups and having a great time., arriving in Roma again in a little under two hours.
Having disgorged Tracey, I spotted another Bonanaza being refuelled at Roma and could not resist walking over to talk shop with its pilot and have a look at its fitout.
With my curiosity satisfied, I climed aboard FWL for the flight back home, which again was a copy of the previous days flying.
On doing my paperwork after shutdown, I discovered that the difference in actual flight time bewtween the two days as a grand total of 72 seconds!