Bernd<p>Last Friday a flying club in a nearby town offered flights for children with cancer and from disadvantaged families. We participated with two pilots and one plane from our own club, for a total of eleven single-engine (mostly <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/P28A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>P28A</span></a> and <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/C172" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C172</span></a> and <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/DR40" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DR40</span></a>) and one twin-engine aircraft (<a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Piper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Piper</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a>), performing non-stop 15-minute sightseeing flights.<br>I got to fly five times, and it was such a heart-warming experience to provide a short moment of absolute delight to the kids.<br>We also got this cute little pilot-wings lapel-pin.<br>The organiser also suffers from terminal cancer, but we expect the tradition to continue even after he passes away.<br>Here's a report in German: <a href="https://www.die-glocke.de/kreis-guetersloh/verl/artikel/verler-erfuellt-kranken-kinder-den-traum-vom-fliegen-1718202847?bo_pwl=1&cHash=4c0bf2c5d05776301c764f4a487ea5ad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">die-glocke.de/kreis-guetersloh</span><span class="invisible">/verl/artikel/verler-erfuellt-kranken-kinder-den-traum-vom-fliegen-1718202847?bo_pwl=1&cHash=4c0bf2c5d05776301c764f4a487ea5ad</span></a><br><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/EDLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EDLI</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Kinderflugtag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kinderflugtag</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Kinderfliegen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kinderfliegen</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Bielefeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bielefeld</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aviation</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/generalaviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generalaviation</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/flying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flying</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Fliegen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fliegen</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Kinderhospiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kinderhospiz</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/hospice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hospice</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Piper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Piper</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Cessna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cessna</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Robin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robin</span></a></p>