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| To celebrate this new release, Civil Air Patrol Pilot will make its first "public appearance" at the CAP's National Conference to be held in St Louis from August 18th to 20th.
Since it's inception in the early 1940s, the Civil Air Patrol has served as an all-volunteer organization. The CAP provides
urgent search and rescue flights, air and ground support for disaster relief, flying officials and staff to remote locations, transporting
essential medical supplies to accident sites and performing aerial damage assessment. With an astounding 64,000 members, they fly
more than 100,000 hours each year performing these important missions.
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Civil Air Patrol Pilot, brings Microsoft Flight Simulator users some of the many important operations that these
volunteers fly each and every day. Using Flight Simulator they'll fly some of the same missions performing critical tasks that keep the
CAP such an essential part of the our nation's resources.
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You'll fly these Civil Air Patrol
aircraft:
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk
- Cessna L-19 Bird Dog
- DHC-2 Beaver
- Cessna 185 Skywagon
- Gippsland GA8 Airvan
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Maj. Gen. Dwight Wheless, CAP National Commander - | |
