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201 Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts: Aerobridge and GA Pilots Helping

201 Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts: Aerobridge and GA Pilots Helping

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Summary
201 Max talks with Trevor Norman, Aerobridge’s National Chapter Coordinator, about Hurricane Ida relief efforts about the need for donations and airplanes to fly supplies. In Louisiana, nearly 1,000,000 people are without electricity. Many communities remain without access to drinking water, food, gasoline, and basic needs, while temperatures remain in excess of 100 degrees. The need is great.

Mentioned in the Show
Video version of Interview with Aerobridge photos and videos
Aerobridge Website
Aerobridge Facebook Page
Aerobridge GoFundMe – Donate here to help
Operation Airdrop Facebook page
Operation BBQ Relief
Cajun Navy Ground Force
Crossroads Alliance and Ministries
Angel Flights Southeast
Flying Magazine Article – Hurricane Ida Relief

You can send relief supplies to a staging area that Aerobridge has set up in Pensacola, FL. Ship supplies to:
Pensacola Aviation Center
C/o Aerobridge
4145 Jerry L. Maygarden Rd.
Pensacola, Florida 32504

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Hurricane Irma Evacuation Flight: Embry-Riddle CFI Veenen Udayan Interview


On Christmas Day, 2006, a tornado destroyed more than 40 airplanes belonging to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. But this year, as Hurricane Irma began tracking toward Florida, the University was prepared with an evacuation plan for its aircraft. Veenen Udayan, an instructor pilot at Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, FL, was a team leader for moving Embry’s 63 aircraft out of the path of hurricane Irma, and relocating them at the Auburn University Airport, and at Atlantic Aviation at the Birmingham Airport, both in Alabama. In this interview, he talks about Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and the flight planning and the advance coordination required with ATC to fit so many IFR aircraft into the system at one time.

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Hurricane Irma Relief – Remote Area Medical – Stan Brock Interview


Remote Area Medical (RAM) is working to deploy it’s fleet of aircraft to Puerto Rico, which will be the forward base from which their Cessna Caravan will fly supplies to the islands hardest hit by Hurricane Irma. RAM was founded over 30 years ago, and has helped provide medical services to over 100,000 people. They are looking for volunteer pilots and healthcare professionals to provide services in underserved areas in the U.S. and the Caribbean. They currently need pilots who can fly their Caravans and their King Air 200. You can find the Remote Area Medical webpage here and their Facebook page here. In this episode, we interview RAM founder Stan Brock about the organization, and learned how doctors, dentists, optometrists, and pilots can help the organization by volunteering their time, or donating money.

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Operation Airdrop’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts – Doug Jackson Interview


Twelve days ago, Operation Airdrop didn’t exist. What did exist was dozens of towns in Texas that were cut off from the outside world by Hurricane Harvey’s flood waters, downed trees, and power lines. After driving a trailer load of supplies to Rockport, TX, Doug Jackson wondered if general aviation airplanes could be used to fly in relief supplies to isolated communities. Twelve days later, over 200 Aircraft from Mexico and all over U.S. have flown over 500 flights and delivered over 250,000 pounds of supplies. All with small, general aviation aircraft. Now the focus of the operation shifts to Florida, where Hurricane Irma is still raging as this show is being released.

In our interview with Doug Jackson, he describes the catalyst for the organization–a moving encounter with a down-on-his-luck man with a sick dog–how the operation was set up in such a short period of time, and how pilots can donate money or use their airplane to deliver badly needed hurricane relief supplies. You can find the Operation Airdrop webpage here and their Facebook page here.

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