This guy has his head screwed on perfectly straight....... If I lived closer I would donate my time to wash the planes.

Texas Jacobson Aviation

http://texasjacobsonaviation.com/?page_id=18

http://texasjacobsonaviation.com/?page_id=7

That's an enviable position to be in. I wish my Daddy left me a quarter of a Billion to burn up giving airplane rides.

Good for him,

Volunteerism in America is invaluable. Nice to see someone of wealth assisting his fellow man.

I am a volunteer pilot for an organization which has been providing such charitable service and free Medical Air Transport for decades. Difference is ...we are poor. Everyone from doctors, pilots, mechanics, clerks, receptionist, accountants, lawyers, teachers, nurses, janitors is a volunteer. We have a small handful of paid employees and over 500 volunteers. We depend on charitable contributions and fund raisers to support our mission. 90 cents of every dollar goes directly to the field, We cannot afford fast, exotic ,airplanes so we fly our patients in a donated Piper Chieftain, Senaca ll or C-206. On Monday my mission, in the PA-31 will be over 9 hours of flight time.

In 2011 we have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

******Our charity, provides a means of solving one of the greater conundrums of contemporary American medicine. If you’re poor and if your disease is not treated locally,your insurance will not pay for treatment elsewhere. If that treatment is needed to save your life and, by circumstance, unavailable, our Medical Air Transport will step in and take you where you can receive treatment. In human terms, that means the charity will find a medical center and team willing to provide treatment, fly the patient to that center to receive treatment and provide an on-site volunteer to monitor that patient. We flew 592 people last year.

The organization has ties to hospitals and doctors across the country and deep respect for the medical community, which is reflected in the services the medical community gives to our patients. Sometimes, those patients provide both the organization and the medical community with truly memorable challenges.******

Bob


****** excerpts of comments from our charity president.

Thats cool!

A BIG AttaBoy to the whole outfit!
More of us aviators should be involved with one of these outfits......
I expect in very rural America there is plenty of 'need'.
Anybody know if there is anything like this in Central WA?

lc