The mission description from Angel Flight was:
INTITIAL TRIP REQUEST:A child from Mundubbera who suffers from a chronic intestinal problem needs to travel to Brisbane for specialist treatment.
The family's financial circumstances and the distance involved would make this a difficult journey without assistance from Angel Flight.
While some AvGas was being pumped aboard I untied the bird and took off the covers. Following the pre-flight inspection I walked to the terminal building to find Blair and Russell already waiting for me. After the obligatory safety brief I had them both onboard, with Blair rubbing shoulders with yours truly, while Russell was relegated to back-seat driver.
The departure to the north was reasonably un-eventful and we soon found ourselves climbing through some broken layers of cumulus at about 7,000'.
But I had problems getting any kind of signal out of the Kilcoy NDB, do I had to rely on cross bearings to Maroochydore VOR and Oakey NDB to verify our position. The GPS, being VFR, was only used to confirm my suspicions. Flight service checked out the situation and soon thereafter broadcast to all and sundry that indeed the beacon was out of action.
After a left turn at Gayndah we soon found ourselves overhead Mundubbera aerodrome, where we touched down on runway 17. The HF radio did not seem to work today (or at least the operator was too busy to take note of me) so I could not cancel SAR watch with Flight Watch. Russell and Blair, not having any luggage trooped off quickly.
The trip back home was uneventful until I was 20 miles out. That's when Brisbane Radar informed me that there was a disabled aircraft on the runway and that I would have to use the dirt strip (The tower just having closed, the parallel runway was not available either).
But just as I was setting myself up for a base leg on runway 04R, someone made a broadcast from the tower: "The tower is closed, but this is the tower. The aircraft that was on runway 10L has now been cleared. The runway is available again". So a little jig to the left and then right again, had me alighting on the tarmac a little over an hour after departing Mundubbera.