Fly Me day and our first Afram Plains Drops.

Melissa Pemberton and the AvTech girls

This year's fly me day was a success and all children from the selected schools arrived on time. The team was very much prepared to receive the young enthusiasts.

On Sunday, the 10th of March 2013, fifty young ladies were brought in by the Volta Lake Transport ferry which purposely made a special sailing to the Afram plains in order to bring them for the fly me day where they were flown at the Kpong field facilities.

The students arrived early as planned and were all flown before noon. They were also shown the facilities at the airfield.

Some of them have already started purchasing entrance forms for the AvTech academy intake in August this year.

At the fly me day, they were told, there will be planes flying into their communities soon to do aerial supply drops containing health related educational drops.
Supply drops were made up by the MoM volunteers, we then set off this morning for the Afram plains to do first aerial drops to the communities we promised on the fly me day. Lydia was the drop master.

Flyme day 2013

Fly me day this year, starts on the Friday, the 8th and the 10th of March 2013. On the 8th, flying started from around 07:45 am.

The first group arrived at 07:00am all very enthusiastic awaiting their flights from the pilots that will be taking them up through the cool morning breeze that blows around the beautiful hills in the locality.

About twenty two were dispatched by the three young pioneers of the AvTech Academy ( Juliet, Emmanuella and Lydia) into their various planes, three at a time.

On Sunday, the 10th of March 2013, we are expecting about fifty determined and enthusiastic ladies from the Afram Plains who are potential intakes for AvTechacademy this September and will all be from communities being selected for aerial supply of health education material from medicine on the move.

Looking to the future

Our future leaders in the AvTech academy proposed to go to a local school this week, to educate other students about aviation.

One of the aims of visiting the school, is to make selection for the fly me day which is forth coming on Friday the 8th of March 2013.

The ladies set off after breakfast for the school for their presentation. Four hours later, they all came back with beaming smiles on their faces and when asked to explain their happiness, they said that, "the school children were very pleased with their teaching".

They further explained that, they taught to other people, their favorite topics like the four forces of flight, which are; lift, gravity, thrust and drag.

They then went on to teach them about the phonetic alphabets, the four cycles of a four stroke engine being; induction (suck), compression (squeeze), combustion (bang) and exhaust (blow).

At the end of the presentation, they were able to select twenty young people to come for the fly me day.