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Fly2Help charity and flight academy

Fly2Help.org is a new organisation based at Kemble airfield in Gloucestershire. It is the brainchild of Phill O’Dell, former RAF fast jet pilot and more recently display pilot for Rolls-Royce’s Mk19 Spitfire.

fly2help aims to assist as many youngsters as possible to reach for the sky and so, as well as working with individuals, this unique charity will also support like-minded organisations by arranging tailor-made event days around the country. The first venture was flying a group of terminally ill, sick and recovering children.

But the charity work is only half of fly2help’s remit, and is called ‘The Foundation’. The second half of its function is as ‘The Flight Academy’. Fly2help uses two aircraft – a Super Decathlon and a Chipmunk, both of them tailwheel aircraft and aerobatic – which are available for training with the Academy’s instructors.

The training available includes gift vouchers and trial lessons, PPL training, conversion courses and aerobatic tuition. Any profits from the training – which, fly2help says, is available at reasonable rates – goes straight in to the Foundation’s charitable work.

Phill O’Dell says: “Now is definitely the time to give something back”. As CEO, Phill believes fly2help can bring a huge injection of exhilaration into a child’s life, commenting “the enthusiasm it generates is amazing and the difference it makes is instantly obvious to see.”

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