Presentation

[Daniel Rio Tinto]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Daniel Rio Tinto, and I just joined Air-Child. I'm 22 years old, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, though both Brazilian and Portuguese nationalities.

I graduated in International Relations and now work with Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs for several institutions as consulting, such as the Brazilian Armed Forces, but also NGOs and UN bodies.

I was intended to be a pilot, but by the time of medical exams I noticed a visual condition affecting colour (a type of colour-blindness) that is forbidding (at least here in Brazil). I chose this other career, then, which makes me very happy, but still, once tasted you can't forget flight.

This is why I was so captivated by Air-Child. Somehow, it mixes two of my main interests!

I hope to fly around with you guys and make some money for the kids! I'll love to ferry lots of humanitarian cargo and personnel from Europe to Africa and Asia in one of the MD-11F!

I was just wondering two things:

1) Why not broaden the spectre of actions by Air-Child, embracing operations held by United Nations in several countries with different aircrafts (A310, DC-10, 727, L-100, DHC-6 and several others) as one additional part of Air-Child operations?

2) Why don't we have a hub in Geneva (LSGG)? We do have in NY and Vienna (both other UN sieges, together with Nairobi - which might also be included), but not Geneva. Besides being a main UN center, lots of logistic functions related to humanitarian affairs are located in Switzerland, nearby Geneva. I can tell of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Médecins sans Frontières and the International Commitee of the Red Cross - all of them have big warehouses and depots with aid material, vehicles and all kinds of stuff that must be shipped to the ground when a complex emergency is happening or when they have to furnish current missions with supplies, just outskirts of Geneva.

It's a pleasure to join such a distinguished group of pilots!

See you guys in the skies. Blue skies.

Best Regards from Rio!

 

[Peter Schindler]

Hello Daniel and welcome to Air-Child VA! Thanks for your nice and interesting presentation. It's a pleasure to have you with us. Especially because, with your background, you can give a lot of interesting and positive input, as you already did. (And also because there's someone now who will understand Luis :lol: )

To shortly answer your questions: we tried to concentrate on UNICEF in the first place, which is a pretty big and complex organisation alone. However, the whole United Nations humanitarian network is even a much bigger and much more complex construct. So, for example, one project for the future is to give more insight in the work of Unicef by having an own Unicef section with editorial info and background information. But this alone will require more contributing members and some editorial staff.
Anyway, your suggestions are very interesting, as well for the flight scheduling as for the Geneva hub, and I hope they will be further discussed in this forum.
One of the guidelines of our VA says "Air-Child should be constantly defined and developed by its members" and that's how it will progress. Just keep in mind that, with the current staff and contributing members, progress will often be slow

 

[Rafal Bardel]

Hello Daniel,

welcome! Good to hear our Brasilian crew is getting bigger and stronger in terms of shared interests and passion we all share. I'm sure you will enjoy being an Air-child pilot as much as we do :hi:

Best regards,

 

[Daniel Rio Tinto]

Hey!

Thanks for the warm welcomes!

I also thank you, Peter, for your clarifying answer. You made exactly my point: how can I make my background in the area to improve Air-Child? I was actually really excited by the initiative, which really really captivated me, for more than 8 years I fly FS online and in VAs, and I always asked myself why didn't anyone turned up with a VA directed to Humanitarian Aid flying and United Nations operations.

In that sense, I put myself at disposition to help with anything you guys might need. I can map some of the main missions on the field now to bring up some new routes to a future LSGG hub if it is the desire of all. Anything else I can do, just ring the bell...

A shame I couldn't cast the decisive vote that would issue a new HUB in Rio instead of Santiago. I see SCEL won for one vote. It's a nice airport with good sceneries though. I'll enjoy flying there also! LOL

Thanks again!

 

[Luis Alves]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Boa noite Daniel, cumprimentos de Lisboa!

Finalmente alguém, que como muito bem disse o Peter , me entende e que não precisa de usar o google para me perceber :rofl:

Com os teus interesses não podias ter escolhido melhor VA, todas as VA's que existem impõem determinadas condições para se voar mas como diz o Rafal "toda a gente aqui voa como quer dependendo só da sua preferência", depois há todo um conjunto de pessoas aqui que simplesmente são 5estrelas para alem da grande filosofia que fez surgir a Air-Child, ajudar quem mais precisa, ajudar as crianças que serão os homens de amanha!

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Good evening Daniel, greetings from Lisbon!

At last someone, that like Peter said, understand me and dont need to use google translator :rofl:

With your interests you couldn't choose better VA, all VA's that exist impose certain conditions to fly but as Rafal says "Everyone fly as they wish, according to their preferences and/or skills" then there are a whole bunch of people here who are simply 5stars besides the great philosophy that gave rise to Air-Child, to help those in need, help children that will be the Men of tomorrow!

 

[Norbert Woeller]

First of all, Welcome to Air-Child!

A shame I couldn't cast the decisive vote that would issue a new HUB in Rio instead of Santiago. I see SCEL won for one vote. It's a nice airport with good sceneries though. I'll enjoy flying there also! LOL

Don't worry Daniel. I'm just planning the flights for the new SCEL HUB. You will find there many flights from an to Rio, and many flights from and to Brasil.

Best Regards
Norbert