Challenge Air

Saturday morning we headed to our city airport to help out with Challenge Air. They get pilots to volunteer their time and fly kids with disabilities around the area for 30 minutes. We went to volunteer to help the kids and their families get in the planes. Some kids are in wheelchairs so it is hard to do it by themselves.

It was a late start because it was raining in the morning...and there was a lot of wind. So we had some breakfast...well, second breakfast.

We would get our guest and their family and escort them out. Then we help load them in, get seatbelts and headsets on.

This was the main pilot, Dave. He is from London, so he was fun to listen to. He was great with kids.

The plane that we helped with.

Jeff is the other pilot...they switched. Jeff is a flight instructor and our first guest is getting his pilot license, so Jeff was able to sign him off on some flight time. Dave is a commercial pilot.

The boys got to sit in the police car.

Dylan turned on the lights.

We did some hula hoop.

Some gymnastics.

We helped 3 families and then we were done, so Jeff took Blake, Dylan and I up for a flight.

Co-Pilot Blake.

Then Jeff asked Blake if he wanted to fly the plane, so he did...Blake flew the plane. He went a little crazy, but had fun doing it.

He flew around the lake.

Dylan and I were in the back.

This is the lake that we get our water from...it is overflowing--crazy to think about 1 1/2 years ago we were in a serious drought.

Thanks Jeff and Blake for the flight. How cool that Blake got to fly!!