A fellow birdwannabe is doing something to help alot of people. Please head to his website and read about his worthy cause. If he can pull this off, even if he can't get everyone of them, I will be proud to be a part of it. Hope that you can also.

What is Flights for Charities?

Flights for Charities is a fundraiser during which Jim Rice will celebrate his 39th birthday and his love of hang gliding by attempting to complete 39 mountain flights in a single day to raise funds for Fisher House™ Foundation. Flights for Charities follows on the heels of the very successful Jumps for Charities fundraiser held in May 2006, during which Jim completed 37 skydives in a single day (in celebration of his 37th birthday) to raise over $4,000.00 for Angel Flight Southeast.

Jim is a Space Station flight controller with NASA. He currently works out of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Payload Operations Center in Huntsville, AL, where he commands and controls the experiment-related hardware on-board the Space Station.
Jim chose to hold this event as a way of showing support for the men and women of our armed forces that are valiantly and selflessly serving our country. Jim has a cousin who is currently serving a second tour of duty in Iraq.
Flights for Charities will be held at Lookout Mountain Flight Park in Trenton, GA, on May 31, 2008. First flight is scheduled for daybreak (6:01 a.m.).
About Fisher House™ Foundation

Fellow pilots,
We are now less than three weeks away from Flights for Charities!! The Ground Support Team is building nicely – thank you to all who have signed up to date. We have a LONG way to go, though.
It has come to my attention that many of you have expressed interest to others in the community in participating on the ground team, but you have not signed up yet on the website.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not wait to sign up on the website if you are planning on participating on the ground team!! It is absolutely imperative that I know well in advance of the 31st whether or not the ground team will be sufficiently staffed.
So, if you will be able to participate on the Ground Support Team, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE go to the Ground Support Team website as soon as possible and sign up!!

http://www.flightsforcharities.org/

http://www.flightsforcharities.org/gst.aspx
Thank you!!
-- Jim Rice