Will you help light the way for the Flying Doctor?
Your kind donation will be a guiding light for the Flying Doctor bringing life-saving care to outback Queensland.
Gifts of $2 or above are tax-deductible.
Your kind donation will help us light up and maintain outback airstrips right across Queensland.
From airstrip lanterns, to medical chests, to emergency equipment, you can help ensure safe landings and life-saving care.
Thank you for showing the team at the Flying Doctor that our work is important to you. You’ll be an essential member of our crew, helping the world’s largest aeromedical organisation as we continue to provide the finest 24-hour medical care to people in the furthest corners of Australia’s vast outback.
As Australia’s most trusted charity, we rely on kind-hearted people like you to keep us flying.
We’re so thankful to have a team of caring people like you behind us.
When an emergency happens and you’re far from help …
Aussies know they can count on the Flying Doctor to be there — any time of the day or night, no matter where they are. And this is largely thanks to our world-class pilots.
To reach remote communities, our pilots rely on private airstrips maintained by outback stations. We’re so thankful to community members who ensure the airstrips are safe and illuminated when they’re needed.
But when an outback airstrip is not much more than a strip of red dirt, surrounded by spinifex, and there’s not another light as far as the eye can see, lighting it up presents many challenges.
LED flares can be unreliable and solar lights are expensive and can appear quite dim from above. Property owners have even resorted to directing car headlights at the airstrip or making flares by lighting diesel-soaked toilet rolls.
With only makeshift lighting to guide their landing, pilots responding to an emergency at night can find themselves facing difficult landing conditions.
Home grown ingenuity
During his 16 years as a rural pilot, RFDS Pilot Nick Tully has navigated difficult landings in some of our country’s most remote locations.
Nick recalls one particular landing at night, when a number of the LED flares lighting the airstrip failed.
“While all remote station landings at night pose challenges, this retrieval highlighted the importance of adequate resources and airstrip preparation; it was the catalyst for my idea to source a low cost, low maintenance, safe and convenient alternative.”
And these airstrips aren’t just for night-time emergencies – we fly in regularly, with nurses, doctors and mental health clinicians on board for Primary Health care clinics. Often this is the only way locals can see a GP, so ensuring these airstrips are up to scratch and our aircraft are fully stocked is vitally important.
It’s with thanks to the resourcefulness of RFDS pilots like Nick Tully, the dedication of our aeromedical teams, and generous supporters like you that we can deliver the best health care to Queenslanders, no matter where, no matter when.
Smart, practical, lifesaving
Whether it’s a practical solution to lighting up airstrips or advanced medical equipment to keep a critically ill patient alive in an emergency evacuation – you can ensure the Flying Doctor is equipped for any situation.
With your support of the Guiding Lights Appeal you’ll be there for people living in some of the most remote areas of Queensland, ensuring no one is ever too far from the medical care they deserve.
You can play a vital role
You can be the difference between a cry for help and a sigh of relief – a guiding light for our pilots and aeromedical teams.
With thousands of emergency retrievals every year and hundreds of remote airstrips across the state, we need your help.
Will you be a guiding light for the Flying Doctor?
Your kind donation will help ensure our aircraft are equipped for any emergency and fuelled to reach even the most isolated communities, and RFDS pilots can land safely on remote airstrips, even on the darkest night.
Thanks to the caring support of generous helpers like you, lighting the way for our aeromedical teams, we’ll continue to deliver the finest care to the furthest corners of our state.
Please donate today
The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia has been consistently voted the most trusted and reputable charity in Australia.
It’s a reflection of the importance we place on ensuring that every dollar of your support is used in the most effective ways possible.
Thank you for your caring donation.
Funds one airstrip lantern
Helps fund medical equipment for an emergency flight
Helps fund a life-saving medical chest for a remote station
Helps light up an entire airstrip
Where your money goes
Your donation will help the Flying Doctor save lives and provide the finest care to the furthest corners of our state.
Charity donations of $2 or more to the Royal Flying Doctor Service may be tax deductible in Australia.
At Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section), we use a secure payment gateway so your donations are secure. If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch via +61 7 3852 7515.
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