Aviators Swing for Angels in the Sky

Oct. 13, 2014 - PRLog -- Mercy Flight Southeast (http://www.mercyflightse.org/), whose mission is provide free air transportation to children and adults in need of specialized, hard-to-get-to medical treatment will benefit from the upcoming Aviation Professionals Golf Classic, presented by BizJet.

The golf tournament will be held on Monday, October 20, at ChampionsGate Golf Club in Orlando. The event gets underway at 10:30 a.m. where golfers and their guests can watch professional trick-shot entertainer Dan Boever at the #10 tee box on ChampionsGate’s Greg Norman-designed International Course.

A shotgun start begins at 11:30 and the day rounds out with cocktails, dinner and awards at 4:30 p.m.

The scramble format tournament benefits Mercy Flight Southeast which is made up of nearly 650 private pilots who volunteer their time and planes to transport patients to life-saving medical care. Mercy Flight Southeast “care traffic controllers” coordinate approximately 3,000 flights each year, 24/7. While the pilots volunteer their time and planes, Mercy Flight Southeast relies on donations to pay for services that keep their passengers and pilots in the air.

For registration and sponsorship information for the Aviation Professionals Golf Classic, presented by BizJet, please call 888-324-9515 or visit www.businessaviationgolf.org. For more information about Mercy Flight Southeast, call (888) 744-8263 or visit www.MercyFlightSE.org (http://www.angelflightse.org/)

About Mercy Flight Southeast

Mercy Flight Southeast is a non-profit volunteer pilot organization that provides free air transportation to distant medical facilities when commercial air service is not available, impractical or simply not affordable. Mercy Flight Southeast is a member of Air Charity Network, an association of charitable aviation organizations comprised of more than 7,500 pilots and who represent over 90% of all charitable non-emergency flights flown in the nation. Mercy Flight Southeast has won the seal of approval from Independent Charities of America recognizing Mercy Flight Southeast as a good steward of the funds it generates from the public.