The mission description from Angel Flight was:
INITIAL TRIP REQUEST:This new born infant has bilateral club feet. She travels for assessment before she begins an intensive course of physiotherapy.
This will entail weekly trips to the RCH over the following 5 weeks leading up to surgery in late July. The frequency of these physio sessions make Angel Flight's assistance crucial to this young mother.
Before too long I ambled over to the terminal, picked up little Reegan, her mum Brette and gran Donna. Donna settled into the back of the plane with Reegan on her lap while I had Brette for company in the front.
We had to taxy all of 50m to the threshold of runway 28R, so, having comleted the usual noisy pre-flight rites in the run-up bay we were soon airborne heading for Amberly and the points yonder.
As expected the wind gave us a little chop as the result of mechanical turbulence, but this abated by the time we reached 3,000'. We entered a stratum of cloud and re-emerged at the top a few minutes later, initially skimming across the tops as we clawed our way up to 10,000'.
Then it was plain sailing - the conditions were so smooth, we couldn't tell that we were moving other than by looking at our progress on teh GPS.
As the sun started to head down, so did we, locating Roma airfield and alighting on runway 18 a few minutes before sun down.
Firing up the engine and lighting up the aeroplane like a christmas tree, I proceeded back to Archerfield, punching through some at 4,000' briefly shedding the deepening gloom as at that altitude the sun still provided that little bit of extra light.
Before too long, however I was in total blackness and headed back to Archerfield, this time with a good tailwind. But, alas the time gained from the wind was quandered when the air traffic controllers had to find a hole in their sequence of other traffic going into Brisbane. So while still in Amberley airspace I was sent hither and thither for ten odd minutes before finally being released to proceed to Archerfield.