The mission description from Angel Flight was:
A fifty-nine year old lady from Mitchell is currently needing weekly chemotherapy treatment for bowel cancer at Toowoomba Hospital.She is unable to travel for 5 hours to attend her appointments by car and is unable to drive post chemotherapy. She unfortunately has no family to help her out in Mitchell and needs the assistance of Angel Flight to access this vital chemotherapy treatment.
Today I was acoompanied by Rob who had also come along on my maiden Angel Flight. With him helping me untie the aeroplane and fold up the cover,
we managed to get away a little early and headed toward Toowoomba in the beautiful blue skies.
We arrived in Toowomba about 27 minutes later and joined the surprisingly dense traffic to land on runway 29. Anne and her sister were already waiting for us.
With Anne settled in the back seat we once again got airborne and quickly climbed to 8,000', where we encountered a strong 35 odd knot head wind. Thus slowed down
and tracking via Oakey and Roma, it took us almost two hours to reach Mitchell.
With a brisk wind from the west we were forced to land directly into the setting sun, depriving me of almost all forward vision in the flare. The resulting touch down was one of the smoothest I have ever pulled off. Maybe I should shut my eyes in future when landing!
Anne's husband was keenly awaiting her return and we passed our precious cargo onto him.
With the sun now casting very long shadows, we got airborne again put the sinking orb behind us. Before too long we had climbed to 9,000' and had a ground speed
of 200 knots at times. About 15 minutes later we were flying in the dark and headed in clear conditions toward Brisbane.
Things were humming along nicely when, half-way between Oakey and Amberly, about 20 minutes from home, the artifical horizon became very artificial indeed; As I was watching it, it did two bounces up and down and then settled to the right, indicating a left 40° climbing turn. Looking outside at the real thing, showed that we were still sky up and earth down. So I covered up the instrument, informed Amberly control, who promptly relaxed the requirement to do a few holding patterns over the Amberly beacon.
From Amberly we proceeded directly to Archerfield where we had to slot ourselves into the busy traffic pattern.