Angel Flights
ElectraNet have sponsored Angel Flights, based out of the Aldinga Aero Club for the second year in a row. Angel Flights is a service that provides a vital link between city and country hospitals via air. Transporting seriously ill people and their families when required to and from hospital for treatment.
ElectraNet’s sponsorship covers the ongoing fuel costs for approximately 20 flights a year. Arriving flights are met on land by the equivalent on land group, the “Earth Angels” who transport the patient to the hospital. Landing fees are waived by the airports as a good gesture.
Aldinga’s Aero Club currently has 5 pilots who are qualified and who own their own planes, capable of conducting the state’s Angel Flights. These flights can save hours in transport and travel time, critical when you are seriously ill and not up to a full return trip by car or bus.
The Angel Flights pilots are truly touched by their passengers and they provide a fantastic service. They give their time and their planes freely. It is a real credit to these individuals. ElectraNet is proud to be involved.
SA Great, Speakers in Schools Program
ElectraNet prides itself in supporting and encouraging all age groups through education. In recent years we have had many opportunities to sponsor various programs like “That Science Gang”, a performance group teaching young kids at school about science.
Here at ElectraNet we own and manage the South Australian transmission system in the National Electricity Market. We connect the largest portion of wind power to the national grid as we strive to anticipate and manage environmental and heritage issues through long-term stakeholder and community consultation and engagement. We listen. We energise.
Sponsoring the SA Great “Speakers in Schools” program is of interest to ElectraNet as it was initially established to address the state’s future needs in the areas of population and workforce, encouraging and inspiring young people to follow their career aspirations here in South Australia.
Programs such as the Speakers in School programs energise our state. We support. We benefit.
That Science Gang
THAT SCIENCE GANG is a group of talented science communicators and performers that create and present a diverse range of science programs for preschool, primary and high school students.
ElectraNet is committed to furthering science within schools and universities, with particular emphasis on the electrical disciplines in an endevour to attract students into engineering.
