The mission descriptions from Angel Flight was:
INITIAL TRIP REQUEST:A frail sixty-two year old farmer with cancer of the kidneys requires to attend an oncologist for specialist treatment review.
He has been hit hard by the drought financially and would also find a 6 hour coach journey beyond his physical endurance.
The weekend before, while doing duty at the Angel Flight stand at the RAAF Amberley Air Show, I had been approached by Adrian Giesemann. Adrian had just signed
up as an Angel Flight pilot but does not have ready access to an aircraft. He was keen to see a mission in action and thus I invited him to tag along.
I arrived very early at Archerfield and was pleasantly surprised to have Adrian already waiting for me. So with two of us pre-flighting the aeroplane, we were very quickly on the way west toward Toowoomba at the customary 6,000'.
As we arrived about 45 minutes before scheduled departure time, we had to cool our heels for about 20 minutes before Neville and his wife Lorraine turned up.
Neville and Lorraine squeezed themselves into the back seats and we headed through largely clear skies toward Oakey, Roma and Mitchell beyond.
With the aircraft at maximum take off weight (actually about 3kg less, but close enough), it took a while to climb to 10,000' but once established there the flight was largely uneventful.
We alighted at Mitchell and bade our passengers farewell, before climbing back aboard for the trip home.
Being a lot lighter now it was not too long before we had climbed to 9,000' and cruised back east with the sun slowly starting to sink behind us.
Between fiddling with (OK tuning) my radios, Adrian took on the role of flight attendant providing me with some cracker biscuits.
We landed at Archerfield some one and a half hours later.
Having another pilot along made putting FWL to sleep a very quick affair.