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Paul,
I am the founding Director of Freedom's Wings Canada, www.freedomswings.ca, inspired and mentored by Freedom's Wings International, www.freedomswings.org, in Pennsylvania, but not legally affiliated with them. There is a four page article on our organization in the current issue of SAILPLANE AND GLIDING, which has two pages written by one of our students, a page by the senior Instructor on teaching paraplegics and the effects on the club and the flight line, and a page I wrote on the establishment of FWC. There will be a three page article in the next issue of FREE FLIGHT, the Canadian journal of Soaring, and it will be available in PDF format at the Soaring Association of Canada website www.sac.ca. We are a strategic alliance between a registered Canadian Charity (eligible for grants from foundations and able to issue tax receipts) called Youth Flight Canada, a gliding club near Toronto called York Soaring Association, and two community organizations for people with disabilities. We received a grant to buy a glider with hand controls, and are eagerly awaiting delivery of our new Peregrine http://www.peregrinesailplane.com/, an American built Krosno KRO3a, which will have the hand controls incorporated in the type certificate. We will be making two videos this summer, one for use at sponsor pitches and Rotary Club lunches, featuring the benefits of gliding from the perspective of Recreational Therapists, and the other targeted at Peer Groups / Rehab Hospitals and focused on inspirational flying footage. We would welcome your input on the former and value being included in the results of your study. Our season is about to commence, and we would welcome you too as a visitor. I will encourage a couple of our pilots to contact you privately. Charles Petersen "Paul T" wrote in message ... I am a student occupational therapist (and lapsed glider pilot), who along with a partner, for a degree assignment, are investigating the therapeutic use of gliding for people with disabilities. I would be grateful if anyone with a disability who has experienced gliding or is a glider pilot, who is willing to relate the benefits for themselves of engaging in the sport, could contact me at . Many thanks for any help that can be given |
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