On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Larry Fransson wrote:

On 2003-11-21 13:03:41 -0800, (Jim Buckridge) said:

I still don't understand how people who consider themselves true
followers of Christ rationalize spending money on frivolous flight.
Just getting the PPL costs over $5K. That money would have gone a
long long way to feeding hungry people, or paying the way for
missionaries to spread the word....

I know one guy who was getting flight training just so that he could go and fly for one of the missionary flight organizations - MAF, I think. I also work with a guy who took a year off from flying professionally to go fly for a missionary organization in Central America.


You know, this is about the only reason I can think of to get religion.
Those missionary pilots do some seriously interesting flying, into places
nobody else goes. The amount of social/medical aid they deliver *might*
even outweigh the damage they do by bringing actual missionaries in.

Are there any secular groups that do this sort of humanitarian flying in
the developing world?

Brian.